Nzeyimana Festus is PhD candidate within the project "Revamping Anticorruption Criminal Law Strategies and Consequences (RevACLaw)" led by Prof. Nadja Capus (Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). This project analyzes recent developments in the fight against corporate corruption across three areas of criminal law: substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, and international legal assistance.

In 2018, Nzeyimana Festus earned his Bachelor's degree in law from Kigali Independent University in Rwanda. In 2023, he completed his Master's degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, along with a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Institute of Legal Practice and Development (ILPD) in 2024. Before pursuing his Master’s, he worked as an assistant at a law firm from 2019 to 2021. At the age of 24, he was appointed as a prosecutor in 2021, where he was responsible for criminal investigations and prosecution. Prior to starting his PhD at the University of Neuchâtel, he served as a prosecutor in the International Crime Department (ICD) in Rwanda.