Krishna Govender is an Associate Professor and head of the E = C2M2 research group within the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Johannesburg. He is a computational chemist and material scientist whose research focuses on computer-aided drug design and material development in pursuit of more effective drugs for the treatment of cancer, nano-delivery drug transportation, steel corrosion treatment and better battery technologies. The computational methodologies and tools utilized in his research group include molecular mechanics, molecular docking, quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, hybrid QM/MM and python. He is the chair of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI) Molecular Modelling Division, chair of the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) Computational Chemistry and Materials Modelling Special Interest Group (SIG), and a member of the National Institute of Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS). He has a C2 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and is an editor of Physical Chemistry for the South African Journal of Chemistry (SAJChem). Currently, he supervises and co-supervises over 20 MSc and PhD students and has numerous collaborations in South Africa and internationally. He has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals.