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Susan Ilani Loubser

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Susan Ilani Loubser BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/29/2018 - 13:25

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Prof Loubser’s research focuses on the formation and evolution of massive elliptical galaxies, with emphasis on the dominant galaxies in galaxy groups and clusters.

Loubser's leading edge observational studies, using telescopes such as the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), the Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, led to her being awarded the 2017 Henri Chrétien Award for observational astronomy by the American Astronomical Society, and the 2018 South African Women in Science Award for Distinguished Young Scientist: Astronomy.

Loubser is strongly committed to training the next generation of South African astronomers, and since 2010 has successfully mentored three postdoctoral fellows, graduated two doctoral and six master's students and supervised eight honours projects, all at NWU's Centre for Space Research. Her current research projects put heavy emphasis on using and training students for South African research facilities, including the SALT and other Sutherland-based telescopes, the MeerKAT radio telescope, and ultimately the Square Kilometre Array.

With an NRF C2 rating, Loubser is the author of 26 peer-reviewed articles, including papers in leading international journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. She is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), the African Astronomical Society, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World.

She has chaired the South African National Committee of the IAU and the Astrophysics and Space Science Specialist Group of the SAIP, and served on various other national committees, including the South African Astronomical Observatory's Scientific Advisory Committee, the SALT Task Team and Time Allocation Committee, and the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme Steering Committee.

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Potchefstroom Campus, Building G5 (Physics), Room 214

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Ashmore Mawire

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Ashmore Mawire BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 05/08/2017 - 09:50

Solar Thermal Energy Storage and Applications

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Prof Ashmore Mawire holds a PhD in Applied Physics from the North-West University in South Africa which he obtained in 2010. He is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Electronics at the North-West University. He is the Director, and the principal researcher in the solar thermal group under the Physics subgroup of the Material Science, Innovation and Modelling (MaSIM) research focus area. His research interests include electronic instrumentation, renewable energy systems, heat transfer, solar food processing and solar thermal energy storage technology. He has published many high-impact factor ISI journal articles and presented papers at several peer-reviewed international conferences. His research is mainly focused on domestic solar thermal energy storage applications. He is an NRF rated C2 researcher. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Energy Storage

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Office 2013, Old Science Building, Mahikeng Campus, NWU

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Christo Venter

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Gamma-ray astronomy, pulsars, H.E.S.S., Fermi LAT, pulsar wind nebulae, globular clusters

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I joined the prestigious Centre (of Excellence) for Space Research (CSR), North-West University (NWU) in 2002 as a graduate student. The Gamma-ray group represents the main South African contribution to the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Collaboration and is also involved in the next-generation Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). I am currently a B2-rated scientist with considerable international recognition and potentially a world leader in pulsar modelling.

I completed my MSc (cum laude) and PhD (first class) in 2004 and 2008, under supervision of the well-known Okkie de Jager. I was a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow and spent 2009 at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA under supervision of the world-renowned Alice Harding. I held the following NWU positions: Lecturer (2005 – 2008), Senior Lecturer (2009 – 2014), Associate Professor (2015 – 2017), and Full Professor (2018 – present). I served as Subject Chair (2015 – 2017) and Research Director (2020 – 2022) of the CSR.

I was co-investigator / collaborator on 3 Fermi Guest Investigator (GI) Proposals and an Astrophysics Theory Program (ATP) Proposal. As principal investigator (PI), I received grants from the NRF's Competitive Support for Unrated Researchers (CSUR), Competitive Support for Rated Researchers (CSRR), and Multi-wavelength Astronomy Research Programme (MAGR) initiatives (2012 – 2018) plus incentive funding for Rated Researchers (2014 – 2019) to a total of ZAR 3.2 million.

I am a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society (2002 – present; top 15% of graduates), South African Institute of Physics (SAIP; 2002 – present; secretary in 2014 – 2016, and co-chair in 2016 – 2018 of the Astrophysics & Space Science Division D), South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP; 2006 – present), African Astronomical Society (AfAS; 2011 –present), International Astronomical Union (IAU; 2012 – present; chair of the IAU South African National Committee 2017 – 2018), and Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK;2014 – present). Awards include an NRF / Department of Labour (DoL) Scarce Skills Scholarship (2003 – 2004), Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science (S2A3) Bronze Medal for the best Natural Science Master's thesis at the NWU (2005), and Elsevier Young Scientist Award (2014).

I co-authored 31 few-author, peer-reviewed articles, 35 peer-reviewed proceedings, 29 conference proceedings, 202 H.E.S.S. papers, 25 Fermi papers, and 2 MeerKAT papers. Eleven papers were published in Science (impact factor 64, I was a corresponding author on 1), 4 in Nature (impact factor 69), and 1 in Nature Astronomy (impact factor 13). NASA ADS lists 24 600 citations from over 80 countries and an h-index of 79. For few-author papers, NASA ADS lists over 850 citations and h-index of 15 (Scopus: 370 citations, h-index 10; Web of Science: 311citations, h-index 9). These are from 36 countries. I reviewed 43 papers and conference proceedings (5 for Astrophysical Journal, impact factor 5.6; 2 for MNRAS, impact factor 5; 1 for PRL, impact factor 8.8).

I hosted international visitors - Dr Clapson (Max Planck Institute) and Dr Kopp (University of Kiel / Bochum) and visited Dr Harding (NASA) four times.

I am a member / associate member of the following international Collaborations: H.E.S.S. (2005 –present; 75 days of observations; 33 observational proposals; Fermi LAT (2009 – present); CTA (2017 – present); and the SA-GAMMA Consortium (2013 – present). I was PI of 4 MeerKAT Open Time Proposals.

I acted as research director of the CSR during 2020 – 2022. I delivered 4 PhD and 8 MSc graduates, supervised or co-supervised 11 Hons. projects, and co-supervised 2 postdocs. I attended 54 international and 23 local conferences, giving 12 plenary talks. I examined 4 master’s and 4 PhD theses

(internally, nationally, and internationally), judged student talks and posters at annual SAIP meetings and gave several public lectures and radio interviews. I acted as co-chair of the scientific organizing committee (SOC) and chair of the local organising committee (LOC) for 1 international conference, and was member of the SOC or LOC of 4 other international conferences.

I plan to continue research in the lively field of Multi-messenger Astrophysics including data from H.E.S.S., Fermi, CTA, Chandra, NICER, MeerKAT, and SKA. I thank God for the wonderful opportunities He has bestowed upon me.

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