Patrick Mungufeni is a Senior Lecturer and the Acting Head of the Physics Department. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Mbarara University of Science and Technology in 2017. Before joining Muni University in February 2021, he worked as a postdoc researcher at Chungnum National University, for a period of one year and five months (September 2019–January 2021). Earlier, he worked as a lecturer of Physics at Mbarara University of Science and Technology from 2011 to 2019. He is a Principal Investigator of the research activity funded by the World Academy of Sciences on the “Quantification of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) and characterization of ionospheric total electron content (TEC) over Uganda”. The first expected outcome of this research work is the realization of an improved TEC model over Uganda through data assimilation, and the second one is the prediction of the deterioration of oil pipelines based on GIC measurements over Uganda. He is also a reviewer for acclaimed international journals including Advances in Space Research, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Weather, and Acta Geophysicae, among others.