Research Collaboration Marketplace Expression of interest in being contacted for a possible Research Partnership – Call 2016 Development Research, Phase 1 Contact Details of Researcher Name of researcher Faith Philemon Mabiki Institution and institute Sokoine University of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, department of Physical sciences Contact e-mail address [email protected], [email protected], fmabiki"suanet.ac.tz Research Profile Research theme(s) of interest according to the Call and country/countries (http://dfcentre.com/wpcontent/uploads/2015/04/Call2016-Phase-1-Final.pdf) Describe in max 10 keywords the main areas of research relevant for the potential applicant form the South Tanzania Theme 2: Economic Development and Poverty Reduction/Green Growth/Natural Resource Management Theme 3: Health: Right to Health/Health Care/Determinants of Health Green resources, green growth, Phytochemistry, natural Products, ethnobony, ethnomedicine, traditional medicine Green Growth, Natural Resource Management, Health Care, biofuel Relevant website(s) www.suanet.ac.tz (institution, researcher profile, CV, other) Dr. Faith received her Bachelor of Science (BSc), majoring in Chemistry and Microbiology, studying environmental science studies as minor at the University of Dar es salaam (UDSM) Tanzania in 2002, MRes (Master of Research in Clean Chemical Technology (Green Chemistry) degree from the University of York (UK) in March 2007 and PhD in natural products at Sokoine University Agriculture, Tanzania in 2013. She has been trained on chemicals from bioresources, specializing on biogas production from plant wastes at the German bioresources centre (DBFZ), sponsored by ICS UNIDO: Trained in the United Kingdom and Kenya on the use of analytical instruments and techniques for natural products analysis and identification, which include HPLC and GCMS. Faith is involved in teaching, research, outreach and consultancy. Teaching undergraduate (Chemistry) and postgraduate (analytical chemistry) courses and supervising research and special projects at Sokoine University of Agriculture. She has being involved in different projects at different capacities as administrator and researcher. Currently she co-administering two natural product based project at SUA funded by The Carnegie Rise African Network for Research and Training in Natural Products, this a regional Project covering Kenya, Uganda na Tanzania associating with other universities in Sub Saharan African. Also administering a collaborative project under the South African / Tanzania research partnership programme bilateral collaborative initiative between the three research and training Institutions: Sokoine University of Agriculture (Tanzania), Biosciences, CSIR (South Africa) and InPheno, Basel with the focus on biotechnology based screening technologies, training and development of scientific expertise and participation in scientific networks in developing new treatments effective against HIV/AIDS that are based on indigenous plants and knowledge from Tanzania. She is an active academic and researcher having published a total of 10 papers, 3 book/book Chapter and 3 Patents. She has supervised a total of 10 special undergraduate projects, 6 MSc and 3 PhD students ongoing. Faith is member of various institutional, national and international organizations that include Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), Natural Products Research Network of Eastern and Southern Africa (NAPRECA) and Tanzania Association of Public, Occupational and Environmental Health Experts (TAPOHE).