mfundo

  Professor Roy Maartens is the SKA Research Chair at the University of Western Cape. He is a cosmologist who analyzes the large-scale structure of the universe to extract information about the universe and to develop tests of Dark Energy and of Einstein’s General Relativity. MeerKAT and the SKA will allow Prof. Maartens and his fellow researchers to apply these … Read More

Prof. Jan Eloff, UP, Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate studies: Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT Prof. Jan Eloff is the Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate studies: Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT (EBIT) and a full professor in computer science at the University of Pretoria.His research interest is in cyber-security and applied aspects of Big … Read More

Associate Professor Roger Deane is an Associate Professor of Physics at UP. He holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering (2008) from the University of Cape Town, an MSc. in Astrophysics and Space Science (2008) from the University of Cape Town, and a D.Phil in Astrophysics (2012) from the University of Oxford. He has been an SKA Postdoctoral fellow at the … Read More

Professor Alan Christoffels is the director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute and director of the Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Capacity Development Research Unit. In 2009, he became the NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Public Health Genomics.  His bioinformatics laboratory studies host-pathogen interactions with a view to understand the regulatory networks that control immune responses to pathogen challenge. … Read More

Dr Fernando Camilo is the Chief Scientist  at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. He is a former Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University in New York, Director of Astronomy at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics from Stony Brook University in New York and … Read More

  Associate Prof. Carolina Ödman-Govender  is the Associate Director of Development and Outreach at IDIA. Trained in physics at EPFL in Switzerland, she holds a PhD in cosmology from Cambridge University, UK. After a Marie Curie research fellowship in Italy, she became the first international project manager of Universe Awareness. She joined the South African Astronomical Observatory as an SKA … Read More

  Dr. Jasper Horrell is the Associate Director of Operations at IDIA. He has also held various senior positions in computing and innovation such as C.E.O. of Deep Data, Technical Director at Saratoga Software, MeerKat Science Processing Managing and General Manager: Science Computing and Innovation at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. He holds a BSc. Honours in Physics (1990), … Read More

  Prof. Rob Simmonds is the Associate Director of New Technologies at IDIA. He is a professor at the UCT Department of Computer Science. Before moving to South Africa, he spent more than ten years as Chief Technology Officer of WestGrid, which is part of the Compute Canada organization. He was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Computer … Read More

  Prof. Russ Taylor is the Director of the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy. He is a professor and SKA Research Chair at the University of Cape Town and the University of Western Cape. Russ is the founding Executive Secretary of the International Square Kilometre Array Steering Committee, the founding chair of the International SKA Science Advisory Committee, the … Read More