About Me

Donald Zvada is a PhD student in Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, supervised by Assistant Professor Silvia D’Angelo and funded by the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme. His project, T-DIET, develops statistical methods for analysing how dietary patterns change over time and how they relate to health outcomes.

He holds an MSc in Mathematical Sciences from AIMS South Africa and Stellenbosch University, awarded with Distinction, and a First-Class Honours BSc in Operations Research and Statistics from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Zimbabwe. He graduated from NUST as the best graduating male student in the class of 2023 and received five national and university awards.

Before starting the PhD he worked as a Quantitative Risk Analyst at EY Zimbabwe, where he built and validated IFRS 9 credit risk models, and as a reporting analyst at EcoCash Holdings. He also teaches and demonstrates statistics courses at Trinity, and helps organise IndabaX Zimbabwe.