About
Management Team
Operational leadership and coordination across IDIA programmes and partnerships.
The management team is involved with operational aspects of IDIA such as budget, hires, partnerships and more. It has a role of scrutiny, support and advice.
The membership includes the IDIA Director, Associate Directors, two academic members from the IDIA partners, often Heads of Academic departments, and one representative from SARAO.
In this section
Current Management Team
| Name | Role | University |
|---|---|---|
| Prof Roger Deane | Director: IDIA | UP |
| Prof Robert Simmonds | Associate Director, New Technologies: IDIA | UCT |
| A/Prof Sally Macfarlane | Associate Director, Outreach and Development: IDIA | UWC |
| Mr Jeremy Smith | ilifu Operations Manager: IDIA | UCT |
| A/Prof Sarah Blyth | HoD: Department of Astronomy | UCT |
| Prof James Gain | Professor of Computer Science | UCT |
| A/Prof Sylvain Halindintwali | HoD: Department of Physics and Astronomy | UWC |
| Prof Mario Santos | Professor of Astronomy | UWC |
| Prof Lerothodi Leeuw | HoD: Department of Physics | UP |
| Dr Fernando Camilo | SARAO Chief Scientist | SARAO |