Usisipho Feleni received her BSc with Honours from the University of the Western Cape in 2012, her MSc in Nanoscience from the University of the Western Cape in 2014, and her PhD in Chemistry from the University of the Western Cape in 2017. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability. She teaches Electrochemistry, Electrochemical Sensors/Biosensors, Analytical Chemistry, and Material Sciences. Her research interests include electrochemical sensors developed with functionalized nanomaterials and quantum dots, clinical diagnostics and environmental analysis, designing of nanomaterials-functionalized hydrogel/ceramic membranes, multifunctional electrocatalytic reactors for sensing, quantification, and removal of emerging pharmaceutical contaminants (EPC) from domestic and environmental wastewater, and photocatalysis/electrophotocatalysis.