Professor

Marelie Davel is a Research Professor at North-West University, specialising in speech processing and statistical pattern recognition. She has a specific interest in multilingual speech technology development in under-resourced environments, and the data-driven modelling of human speech and language.

Marelie Davel is a Research Professor at North-West University, specialising in speech processing and statistical pattern recognition. She has a specific interest in multilingual speech technology development in under-resourced environments, and the data-driven modelling of human speech and language.

Mark is a professor in Zoology at the NWU and studied at Stellenbosch University (1992–2000) completing his PhD degree in 2000. His research focus is earthworm ecotoxicology (organismal and cellular effects) and the broader field of soil ecotoxicology (agricultural and mining areas). This research is done in order to determine soil pollution with the aim of making recommendation on how to address and manage these effects. In addition to this he also does research on organic waste management utilizing earthworms.

Derick Blaauw professor in the School of Economics at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). He previously lectured in the Department of Economics & Econometrics at the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as well at the Soweto and Bloemfontein Campusses of Vista University.

Sanlie Middelberg’s academic credentials include a PhD in Management Accounting, and she is also a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA) with the UK-based Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). Sanlie’s research focuses on agricultural finance in Africa, including value chain financing, credit assessment, collateral and agricultural valuations. Sanlie has published a number of peer-reviewed articles in international journals including two articles in the Financial Management members’ magazine of CIMA.

Prof. Sanne ter Horst is a professor in Mathematics who works on metric constrained interpolation and extrapolation problems. These kinds of problems originate in complex analysis, where they have been studied since the early 20th century, but are currently viewed more as part of functional analysis and operator theory.

Pieter is an associate professor in the Taxation programme at the NWU. He is responsible for the Mcom Taxation degree.

Riaan is a micro-economist with more than ten years consulting, research and teaching experience. He is currently associate professor in the School of Economics at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus. He has wide-ranging knowledge in most economic sectors as well as economic development as a whole.

Prof. Banie Boneschans is head of the Centre for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Services (CPBS) and is responsible for the overall management of service-delivery units that are operated as independent business units within the CPBS. He obtained the degrees BSc (Pharm), MSc (Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) and DSc (Pharmaceutics) at the former PU for CHE. Following a brief stint as forensic analyst at the South African Police Service's forensics department he accepted an appointment as research scientist at the School of Pharmacy in 1979 and was subsequently promoted to senior lecturer in 1983 and to professor in 1987. His research focused on finding solutions to pharmaceutical and bioavailability problems. In conjunction with co-workers at the University of Zagreb in Croatia he participated in several national and international conferences and authored or co-authored a number of scholarly reports and publications.