Research Interest
Environmental chemistry and toxicology, development and validation of analytical techniques, food safety and risk assessment, nanotechnology in wastewater treatment and green energy technologies
Patrick Ssebugere is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Makerere University in Uganda (East Africa). He received his Dr Sc in Green Chemical Technology from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland in 2015. In 2019, he undertook postdoctoral studies at Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health in Germany. In 2022, he was awarded a Georg Forster Research Fellowship, and he spent 12 months at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Germany. Since 2022, he is Chairperson of the Technical Committee at the Uganda National Bureau of Standards on the standardization of Paints, Varnishes, and related products for East Africa. Currently, he is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, and Editorial Board Member for Global Science Publishing. At Makerere University, he is group leader of the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology.