Dr Edwin Tonderai Mombeshora is a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. He is passionate about materials chemistry and has over a decade of research experience in carbon-based nanostructured materials and their nanocomposites for energy conversion and storage applications. His research group focuses on materials chemistry and nanotechnology for energy applications and environmental remediation. He completed his BSc honours degree at the University of Zimbabwe in 2011. He subsequently graduated with his MSc and PhD in 2015 and 2018, respectively, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2018 and 2021, Dr Mombeshora started his two post-doctoral fellowships in the Discipline of Chemical Engineering and School of Chemistry and Physics, respectively, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Dr Mombeshora also served as an international Technology Transfer Fellow at Swansea University, United Kingdom (2021-2022). He then joined the University of Zimbabwe in 2022 till December 2024 as a Physical Chemistry Lecturer and has served in various committees including the Higher degrees and Quality Assurance Committees. He is a member of the South African Chemical Institute and a Royal Society of Chemistry Affiliate. He was a visiting researcher at the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 2024. He has won several awards.