| 1971-1977 |
Primary School education at Mitanto (Kitwe), Makoma (Luanshya and Muwele (Chief Chiundaponde, Mpika) Primary Schools, Zambia |
| 1978-1982 |
Secondary (High) School education at Mungwi Secondary School, Mungwi, Northern Province, Zambia |
| 1983-1987 |
B.Sc. Ed. (chemistry with distinction), University of Zambia |
| 1987-1989 |
Technical Officer, Assistant Shift Manager, Development Chemist, Kafironda Explosives Limited, Mufulira, Zambia. |
| 1989 - 1992 |
Cambridge-Livingstone Trust Scholar and PhD Student, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 1989-1992 |
(UK) Research with Stuart Warren |
| 1992-1994 |
Sir William Ramsay British Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK. Research with Nick Greeves. |
| 1994-1996 |
Wellcome Trust (UK) International Prize Travelling Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, Scripps Research Institute, United States of America (USA). Research with K. C. Nicolaou. |
| 1996-1997 |
Contract Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town (UCT). |
| 1997 |
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, UCT |
| 1998 |
Wellcome Trust Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK (with Stuart Warren). |
| 1999-2000 |
Welcome Trust Visiting Fellow, University of Dundee, UK (with Alan Fairlamb). |
| 2001-2003 |
Senior Lecturer (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT. |
| 2002 |
Sandler Sabbatical Fellow, University of California San Francisco, USA (with Jim McKerrow). |
| 2002 |
Invited Professor, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France (with Jacques Brocard). |
| 2004-2006 |
Associate Professor (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT. |
| 2006-date |
Full Member, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), UCT. |
| 2007- date |
Full Professor (ad hominem promotion), Department of Chemistry, UCT. |
| 2008- date |
Tier 1 South African National Research Chair in Drug Discovery under the South African Research Chairs Initiative |
| 2008 |
US Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA (with Doron Greenbaum), Jan-June 2008 |
| 2008 |
Visiting Professor, Pfizer Global Research & Development (Sandwich, UK), Sep-Dec 2008. |
| 2009- |
Director, South African Medical Research Council Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit |
| 2010- |
Founder and Scientific Director, Holos 3ple-D Drug Discovery |
KC's research interests are broadly in the fields of drug discovery and synthetic organic chemistry.
