School of Education

Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana has been a lecturer at the University of
Rwanda since July 2023. She has worked as an assistant chief chemist at
Alex Stewart International Rwanda (Analytical Laboratory) from 2010 to
2012 where she had several responsibilities among them the development
and use of analytical techniques as well as instrumentation for the analysis
of minerals and chemicals.

Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana earned a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (2019) from Lanzhou
University (China) where her research interests focused on the synthesis of novel fluorescent nanomaterials for diverse applications including the detection of heavy metals, Chemical and Biological Sensors, Clinical pathology, etc. She has conducted various research and published a number of articles in well-recognized peer-reviewed journals.

In 2014, She was awarded a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering by Xiamen University (China) where she conducted research and contributed to Environmental Bioremediation. In 2010, She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry (option : Environmental Chemistry) from the former National University of Rwanda where she performed research and contributed to municipal solid waste management
and valorization in Huye City (Rwanda).

Because of her passion for contributing in closing the gender gap in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) ; Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana joined the Rwandan
Association for Women in Science and Engineering (RAWISE) in order to give her contribution to inspire and encourage young females to pursue STEM subjects. She is also a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) whose mission is to promote female participation in science, technology, engineering, and decision-making processes.

Publications
2020 1. Stanislas Nsanzamahoro, Ling Li, Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana, Juanjuan Liu,
Cuiling Ren, Hongyan Qin and Hongli Chen, Synthesis of fluorescent and water-soluble
silicon nanoparticles with a high pH response and its application to pH measurement and
gastric parietal cell imaging. New Journal of Chemistry, 2020,44, 19294-19299.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/nj/d0nj04917d#!divAbstract
2019 2. Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana, Juanjuan Liu, Stanislas Nsanzamahoro, Min Na,
Hongli Chen and Xingguo Chen*, Yellow-emissive carbon dots as a fluorescent probe for
chromium(VI) Microchimica Acta, 2019, 186:163
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00604-019-3284-1
3. Stanislas Nsanzamahoro, Wei Cheng, Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana, Ling Li,
Weifeng Wang, Cuiling Ren, Tao Yi, Hongli Chen, Xingguo Chen, Target triggered
fluorescence “turn-off” of silicon nanoparticles for cobalt detection and cell imaging with
high sensitivity and selectivity. Talanta, 2019, 120636.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003991401931269X
.
2018 4. Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana, Juanjuan Liu, Min Na, Stanislas Nsanzamahoro, Zhi
Rao, Hongli Chen and Xingguo Chen*, Synthesis of orange-red emissive carbon dots for
fluorometric enzymatic determination of glucose. Microchimica Acta, 2018, 185 : 518.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00604-018-3041-x.

5. Stanislas Nsanzamahoro, Félicité Pacifique Mutuyimana, Yangxia Han, Sudai Ma,
Min Na, Juanjuan Liu, Yunxia Ma, Cuiling Ren, Hongli Chen* and Xingguo Chen, Highly
selective and sensitive detection of catechol by one step synthesized highly fluorescent
and water-soluble silicon nanoparticles. Sensors and Actuators B : Chemical, 2018,
2681, 849–856.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925400518319695