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To meet its mandate of improving the quality of life of South Africans, the CSIR relies on its most important asset, its people. The CSIR’s multidisciplinary nature positions the organisation to help solve the increasingly complex problems of our time. This multidisciplinary science, engineering and technology base is made up of individuals who are highly specialised in their respective fields. They are geneticists, virologists, software developers, polymer chemists, applied mathematicians and industrial engineers, just to name a few.
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Hlabela’s research focuses on the design, optimisation, operation and maintenance of water distribution networks, wastewater treatment processes and ports infrastructure.
Labuschagne’s research interests lie in developing polymer-based encapsulation technologies for pharmaceutical actives (such as drugs, vaccines, phytochemicals, bacteria) using ‘green’ supercritical CO2-based processes.
Dr Ntshotsho is a restoration ecologist whose primary research interests centre on evidence-based restoration, including examining what constitutes and contributes to effective ecological restoration.
Naicker’s research interest include the development of point-of-care diagnostic and vaccine-matching tests for livestock diseases, as well as the development of high-throughput screening and automatable tools for accelerating proteomics research.