ACHIEVEMENTS
● Published a research paper and a review on designing and
fabrication of novel wound dressings (2019 and 2020).
● First place prize (Oral presentation) Wits 10th cross-faculty postgraduate research symposium (2019).
● GOLD prize (oral presentation) Molecular Biosciences Research Thrust 2019 research day (Wits, 2019).
● Presented my academic work at the 4th international conference on biomedical polymer and polymeric biomaterials (Poland, 2018).
● First class certificate in Ancillary Mathematics and Statistics I (2012).
● Best learner in the Science stream, Physical Science, Mathematics, Agriculture, SiSwati, Geography (2011).
CORE SKILLS
● Oral Presentation ● Sales
● Project management ● Entrepreneurial skills
● MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint ● Workshop organisation
● Laboratory techniques ● Academic research
EDUCATION
2017 - 2020 MSc (Medicine) - PhD in Pharmaceutics
(University of the Witwatersrand)
2018 Entrepreneurial generator programme
(Certificate) Wits Business School
2016 Bachelor of Science Degree (Honours)
Biochemistry and Cell biology
(University of the Witwatersrand)
2012-2014 Tertiary (University of the Witwatersrand) Bachelor of Science Degree
Chemistry, Biochemistry and Cell biology.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Teaching assistant and academic intern (2016-2019)
● Lecturing organic and analytical chemistry
● Laboratory experiment set-up and monitoring students
● Grading students on their laboratory reports and essays. Laboratory assistant Vacation school holidays 2012-2014
● shadowing postgraduate students on their academic research.
● Running short project
● Over-expression of the protease and characterisation employing SDS-PAGE, chromatographic techniques, ITC, fluorescence, spectroscopy and computational programmes.
Run-up sales man November-December 2012-2015
● Casual run-up sales man (Skipper Bar clothing shop). HILLARY MNDLOVU
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Nationality: South African
Date of birth: 01-10-1991
LANGUAGE(S)
Siswati, Xitsonga, Zulu, English,
Sesotho, SePedi, Ndebele and Xhosa
PROFILE
I worked in various projects during
my stay at the University of the
Witwatersrand. This has broaden my
analytical skills, project
management, research design and
more importantly time
management. These projects from
different fields allowed me to focus
on goals, time frame objective
attainment, finding effective
approaches of achieving goals
without going beyond the budget
while maintaining high quality
output. This gave me the
opportunity to be an independent
researcher, adapt quickly and apply
my skills. My research passion is
driven by the zeal to know more and
be great at any given task.
CONTACT DETAILS
Residential & postal Address: 1
Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein
(Johannesburg), 2050
Cell No.: 082*******
Email: **************@*****.***
HILLARY MNDLOVU
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Nationality: South African
Date of birth: 01-10-1991
LANGUAGE(S)
Siswati, Xitsonga, Zulu, English,
Sesotho, SePedi, SeTswana, Ndebele
and Xhosa
PROFILE
I worked in various projects during
my stay at the University of the
Witwatersrand. This has broaden my
analytical skills, project
management, research and more
importantly time management.
These projects from different fields
allowed me to focus on goals, time
frame objective attainment, finding
effective approaches of achieving
goals without going beyond the
budget while maintaining high
quality output. This gave me the
opportunity to be an independent
researcher, adapt quickly and apply
my skills. My research passion is
driven by the zeal to know more and
be great at any given task.
CONTACT DETAILS
Residential & postal Address: 1
Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein
(Johannesburg), 2050
Cell No.: 082*******
Email: **************@*****.***
REFERENCES
Name: Prof. Yasein Sayed (PhD)
Company/Institution: Wits School of Science
Position: Lecture in the School of Molecular
and Cell Biology
Office: +27-11-717-****
Fax: +27-11-717-****
Cell: 082-***-****
Email: ******.*****@****.**.**
Name: Dr Previn Naicker( PhD)
Company/Institution: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Position: Molecular Diagnostic Research Group
Biosciences Unit
Cell: 082-***-****
Email: *********@****.**.**
Name: Prof. Viness Pillay (PhD)
Company/Institution: Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform
(WADDP)
Position: Personal Professor of Pharmaceutics
Email: ******.******@****.**.**
Name: Miss Thandeka Nkosi
Company/Institution: Skipper Bar
Position: Store manager
Contact: 076*******
Name: Dr. Thashree Marimuthu
Company/Institution: Wits Advance Drug Delivery Platform
(WADDP)
Position: Senior lecture pharmaceutical
Chemistry
Email: ********.*********@****.**.**
Name: Prof. Lisa Claire du Toit
Company/Institution: Wits Advance Drug Delivery Platform
(WADDP)
Position: Associate Professor: Pharmaceutical
Chemistry
Email: ****.******@****.**.**
PARTICIPATION
2020
Great Leap Forward. The fellowships
helps establish and guide academic
entrepreneurs
2018
Wits Health science research day
Wits 9th cross-faculty postgraduate
symposium.
Entrepreneurial generator plus
programme
2013-2016
Participation: Wits Citizenship and
Community Outreach (WCCO). 3ple-
C tutoring programme.
2011
Leadership: Chairperson-
Representative Council of Learners
(LRC Grade 12).
INTERESTS AND HOBIES
I play basketball. I like reading. I
enjoy intellectual challenges, and
this is the reason why I chose science
as my career path. I enjoy positive
communications with a group of
people who share common goals.