Prof. Askwar Hilonga is featured on the Video with Bill Gates and other world renown dignitaries and got connected to His Royal Highness The Duke of York, Prince Andrew. He is the winner of 22 reputable awards, including World Health Organization (WHO) Health Prize, Pitch@Palace, and the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2015, Sponsored by the British Royal Academy of Engineering - he invented a “Low-Cost Water Filter (Nanofilter®)”. Has a Patent and Trademark, published 55 Articles by Nov 2021, authored 2 books, and 1 Book Chapter – he is a role MODEL for the “Academia for Society and Industry”, an approach championed by NM-AIST University.

1. Materials Characterization
2. Nanomaterials Science and Technology
3. Applied Nanotechnology
4. Advanced Materials Characterization

1. Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation – under the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
2. Affiliate of Academy of Sciences (AAS): ORCID iD 0000-0002-2938-5149

1. Commonwealth Award, 2021: https://www.thecommonwealth.io/innovator-awards-2021/
2. Africa Innovates for SDGs – sponsored by the President of Ghana, 16th Nov. 2019
3. Transfer of Low-cost Water Filter Technology (SAIS-C2-2019-0752), Zambia – sponsored by Southern Africa Innovation Support (SAIS 2)
4. WHO Health Prize through United Arab Emirates - facilitated by Tanzania Ministry of Health, 2019: $20,000 : https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/tanzanian-scientist-proposes-nano-innovations-to-address-health-problems
5. Tanzania National Competition for Science, Technology, and Innovation (in Swahili: Mashindano ya Kitaifa ya Sayansi, Teknolojia, na Ubunifu - MAKISATU) 7th March 2019: Cash plus further government support
6. Champion of Science - Africa Storytelling Challenge by Johnson & Johnson, U.S.A, Feb 2019: https://www.jnj.com/africa-storytelling-challenge/meet-askwar-hilonga
7. Leveraging Adoption of Renewable Energy in Rural Tanzania (Cow-dung based biogas) - Sponsored by the People of America through USADF, Tsh.145 m (first grant - 2014-2017); Tsh.279 m (Extended - 2017 - 2020)
8. Pitch@Palace Global, Dec 2016 - by The Duke of York, Prince Andrew
9. Won DFID grant of GBP 350,000, May 2016 - though Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF)
10. Pitch@Palace Africa, Dec 2015 - by the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Aliko Dangote, and Obasanjo: https://pitchatpalace.com/pitchpalace-africa/
11. National Health Innovation Award (via The President of Tanzania), Oct 2015 - by National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR)
12. Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, June 2015 - by the Royal Academy of Engineering; GBP 25,000: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q4SwfFDxiz4

1.Zero Emission Concepts for Urban Resilience in Selected African Cities (ZECURA), Funded by the German Ministry of Education, Euros 46,583

2.Adoption of Low-cost sustainable water filters (Nanofilter®) for purifying drinking water at point of use (POU) for underserved community in Arusha Region, funded by UK Gov. DFID/HDIF, £350,000

1.Oyetade, J. A., Hilonga, A., & Machunda, R. L. (2023). Performance evaluation of in situ Fenton-mediated photocatalysis of industrial dye effluent with enhanced TiO2 nanoparticle. AQUA-Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society. https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.027

2.Edwin N. Richard, Askwar Hilonga, Revocatus L. Machunda, Karoli N. Njau, Two‑stage banana leaves wastes utilization towards mushroom growth and biogas production Biotech (2020) 10:542 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-020-02525-6 (Published: 20 November 2020)

3.Furaha Ndeki Alphonce, Tusekile Alfredy, Askwar Hilonga, Yusufu Abeid Chande Jandea, Naturally occurring metal oxides from rocks as capacitive deionization electrode material for antibacterial activities, Desalination and Water Treatment, (2023) 1–13, doi: 10.5004/dwt.2023.29587

4.Clarence Rubaka, Jeremiah Waweru Gathirwa, Hamisi M. Malebo, Hulda Swai, Askwar Hilonga, Development and Characterization of Nanovesicles Containing Phenolic Compounds of Carissa spinarum: Encapsulation, release kinetics, antimicrobial activity and mathematical modeling, Journal of Biomimetics, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (Volume 60) 43-52, https://doi.org/10.4028/p-8mzn1a

Google scholar profile:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3KhcgHkAAAAJ&hl=en

1. LINKS for the detailed information about Hilonga’s innovation:
2. BBC News : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32973591
3. Detailed articles and photos are available at: http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2015/04/article_0005.html AND http://washinnovations.r4d.org/program/water-stations-operated-by-local-entrepreneurs-in-tanzania
4. YouTube Videos:
5. About winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnriVn4-Slg
6. Appearance and how the Nanofilter® works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aORGCIp_2Fs
7. Testimony – IMPACT; Happy healthier customer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMbjKyDdHEU

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