Louis Heyns du Preez

Prof

Louis Heyns

Du Preez

Zoology

Professor

NRF Rating:

C - Established researchers with a sustained recent record of productivity in the field who are recognised by their peers as having:produced a body of quality work, the core of which has coherence and attests to ongoing engagement with the field and demonstrated the ability to conceptualise problems and apply research methods to investigating them.

Potchefstroom Campus

Prof Louis du Preez, professor in Zoology at the NWU

My Work

Louis du Preez is a professor in Zoology at the North-West University. He is leading the African Amphibian Research Group. His research focusses on the wellbeing of amphibians and in particular the conservation of endangered species as well as the systematics and ecology of amphibian parasite diversity. He specialises on polistoom flatworm parasites that are found in frogs, salamanders, worm amphibians, sea turtles and on the eye of the hippopotamus. In his research, he works in close relationship with scientists from France, USA, Nigeria, Brazil and China. Louis du Preez is the author of seven books and 102 scientific publications.