Joseph K’ Ekuboni MALONGWE, BSc, MSc, PhD.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head in charge of Academic Affairs - Department of Chemistry
Affiliation: Computational and Physical Chemistry Division - Biochemistry and Food Chemistry Division
Education
B.Sc., Faculty of Science, Université de Kinshasa.
M. Sc. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
PhD. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Thesis title: Photophysical and Chemical Properties of Organic Pollutants on the Ice Surface, 2016
Research interest
My research focuses on the photophysical and chemical properties of organic pollutants in the environment, kinetics of photochemical reactions of relevant organic pollutants in the environment, development of new analytical and experimental strategies for monitoring anthropogenic pollutants in soil, water, air and ice (snow) .
Key words: Surface physical chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, Structural et Metabolic Biochemistry
Teaching
- Special questions of physical chemistry
- Environmental geochemistry
- Combustion;
- Remediation of polluted soils;
- Radioactive waste management.
Scholarly Activity
Scholarly Societies membership
Effective members of several learned societies including Société des chimistes du Congo (Sochimico), the European Photochemistry Association (EPA) and The American Chemical Society (ACS).
Selected Articles
Joseph K’Ekuboni Malongwe, Dana Nachtigallová, Pablo Corrochano, Petr Klán, Spectroscopic Properties of Anisole at the Air−Ice Interface: A Combined Experimental–Computational Approach, Langmuir 2016, 32, 5755 – 5764.
Ján Krausko, Joseph K’Ekuboni Malongwe, Gabriela Bičanová, Petr Klán, Dana Nachtigallová, and Dominik Heger, Spectroscopic Properties of Naphthalene on the Surface of Ice Grains Revisited: A Combined Experimental−Computational Approach, J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119, 8565−8578.
Rafał Kania, Joseph K’Ekuboni Malongwe, Dana Nachtigallová, Ján Krausko, Ivan Gladich, Martina Roeselová, Dominik Heger, and Petr Klán, Spectroscopic Properties of Benzene at the Air−Ice Interface: A Combined Experimental−Computational Approach, J. Phys. Chem. A 2014, 118, 7535−7547.
Debajyoti Ray, Joseph K’Ekuboni Malongwe, and Petr Klán, Rate Acceleration of the Heterogeneous Reaction of Ozone with a Model Alkene at the Air−Ice Interface at Low Temperatures, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2013, 47, 6773−6780.
Contact information:
: joseph.malongwe@unikin.ac.cd; jmalongwe@gmail.com
: +243 81 921 0487
Faculty of Science Building, Office A-8
av de l'Université - C. de Lemba - Kinshasa
Postal adress: P.O Box 190 Kin XI Kinshasa - DR Congo