Dr. Winfred Mueni Mulwa is a Doctor of combined computational and experimental Physics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Egerton University. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) – 2024 to 2025. She is a 2024_Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Award Recipient. Dr. Mulwa is employed as a visiting scholar in the department of mechanical science and engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA. She is the head of High-Performance Computing, Department of Physics - Egerton University. She is a Principal Investigator, Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) – South Africa from 2018 to date. She is the Intellectual Property Officer (IPO) at Egerton University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Physics, specializing in combined Computational and Experimental Physics within Material Science. The PhD degree was obtained from University of the Free State South Africa. She received her Master’s degree in Computational Physics from University of Eldoret, Kenya / ICTP-ITALY. She has a long-standing experience working with Density Functional Theory an ab initio technique within Quantum ESPRESSO. She is trained in High Performance Computing (HPC). The HPC training was done at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. She continues to conduct research in Fe2P-type materials for near room temperature refrigeration. She is also researching on High-throughput computational design and discovery of novel thermoelectric materials. She also researches on inorganic double and single perovskites for energy harvesting. In her Computational Physics laboratory, she has been able to install twenty high performance computers being used by her PhD and Masters students for research. She has successfully supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate students and works in collaboration with researchers locally and internationally.
