Noble Banadda

Banadda has had a trailblazing scientific career. He was hired by Makerere University, serving in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. As of November 2018, he is the head of that department. In 2012, he made full professor at age 37.

In November 2018, he was selected as the winner of the 2018 Pius XI Medal Award. "The Pius XI Medal is a global award given every two years by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to a scientist under the age of 45, who has conducted and shown exceptional promise in scientific research". He is the first African to receive this award since it was established on 1939..

Noble is Next Einstein Fellowship Laurate (https://nef.org/fellow/noble-banadda); Oliver Reginald Tambo Research Chair at Makerere University (https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/or-tambo-africa-research-chairs-initiative-transforming-african-research-landscape); honored young scientist at the World Economic Forum; Alumni of the Global Young Academy (2013 -2018) (https://globalyoungacademy.net/noble-banadda/); fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences; Member of the Makerere University Senate; Adjunct Professor at Iowa State University (USA) (https://www.engineering.iastate.edu/people/affiliation/faculty/page/5/); Research Fellow at University of Cambridge (UK).

Noble Banadda (born c.1975) is a Ugandan biosystems engineer, researcher and academic, who is a Professor of Biosystems Engineering at Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university. He was appointed as a full professor in 2012 at age 37, the youngest person in the history of the university to attain full professorship.

Banadda was born in Kampala, Uganda's capital city on May 14, 1975. After attending local primary and secondary schools, he was admitted to Sokoine University of Agriculture, in Morogoro, Tanzania, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Technology.