Postdoctoral researcher in Fibre Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm). Primary research interest: chemistry of sustainable and functional materials. Formerly a Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow at the University of Bath, postdoctoral researcher at Yokohama City University and an organiser at Ndifuna Ukwazi and Equal Education (Cape Town). PhD completed in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University.