Leadership and Governance
Organizing Secretary, PSK
Dr. Victor Odari
Organizing Secretary, PSK
Dr. Benjamin Victor Odari is a senior lecturer in Materials Science in the Department of Physics, School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. He graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Education in Science (Physics and Mathematics) in 2009 and Master of Science in Physics in 2013 both from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. He obtained his PhD in Renewable Energy in September 2019 at University of Nairobi, Kenya. Part of his PhD research work was done at the Institute of Energy and Climate Change (IEK5), in Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany under the scholarship of DAAD. Dr. Odari is involved in research infrastructure development and capacity building in the area of Materials Science. He is a member of the African Network for Solar Energy (ANSOLE) & the country representative for Kenya and a number of scientific networks in the area of energy in Kenya. His current research focuses on characterization of materials and devices for solar energy conversion and it involves both experimental and computational studies of materials through modelling and simulations using Quantum Espresso and SIESTA codes & SCAPS and OghmaNano softwares. Dr. Odari is also the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) champion for Kenya, promoting knowledge, understanding and applications of crystallography in Kenya, an editor and reviewer for a number of scientific journals.
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics.