Mubela was a masters student at the University of Hertfordshire where he developed data reduction techniques for On The Fly Map observations and carrying out research on Radio Recombination lines with the Ku-band Galactic Reconnaissance Survey (KuGARS) data from the Janksy Very Large Array.

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Prior to his Masters, he obtained a bachelor of science with a double major in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Zambia. While there, for his undergraduate project, he studied Tomographic Imaging of the Ionospheric Structure and Disturbances in the East-Central Africa region. He went on to publish a short paper on this topic in the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) 2013 conference proceedings. Between his BSc and MSc, Mubela worked as a tutor in the department of physics at the University of Zambia and took part in the DARA astronomy training program that led to his MSc scholarship.

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Following his MSc, Mubela’s immediate career plan will be to get a PhD position. He plans to focus his research on Star formation and star forming regions – particularly on Ultracompact and Hypercompact HII regions.