Dr Oyirwoth Patrick Abedigamba is a Senior Lecturer, in the Department of Physics, Kyambogo University, Uganda. Prior to that, he was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics, North-West University, South Africa. He is an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda since 2016.
Dr Abedigamba is commonly known among his current and past students, peers and colleagues, completed his PhD at North-West University, South Africa in 2016; his MSc in Astrophysics and Space Science through the National Astrophysics and Space Science Program (NASSP) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2010, BSc Honours in Astrophysics and Space Science through the National and Astrophysics Program (NASSP) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2008, and his undergraduate studies at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda in 2007. His research interests lie in the area of theoretical and observational Astrophysics. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of Physics.
Dr Abedigamba has served on the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) local conference committee -2021 and National and Astrophysics Program (NASSP) winter school as a tutor (several occasions) and lecturer for National and Astrophysics Program (NASSP) workshop/program (2019 -2021). He has served on the North-West University Physics Internal and External Program evaluation and Kyambogo University Curriculum Review Committee 2022. Dr Abedigamba has recently developed Astrophysics module/course unit for postgraduate students at Kyambogo University, Uganda.
Dr Abedigamba is the instructor for a popular computational method module/course unit at the Physics Department, Kyambogo University, as a way of introducing skills needed to handle Astrophysics' future research. He has mentored the National and Astrophysics Program (NASSP honours students in Astrophysics research, MSc students both at North-West University & Mbarara University of Science and Technology and a Postdoctoral Fellow (in Astrophysics).
