Munashe Ignatius Chibinyani is now pursuing his MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Central University of Technology in Free State, South Africa. He has a BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. His current research focuses on the development of computational models and practical experiments associated with topology and shape optimisation strategies for additively manufactured hierarchical cellular structures to be potentially adopted for aerospace, automotive, biomedical, offshore, and infrastructure applications.