Research Group
The CSIR is a multidisciplinary organisation with a vast range of science, engineering and technology competences, rooted in the minds of its qualified, experienced and renowned experts. The organisation’s range of expertise include broad fields of science such as mathematics; computer and information science; applied sciences such as urban and town planning; physical sciences; chemical sciences; earth and related environmental science; and biological sciences.
It also includes engineering and technological fields such as civil engineering; architecture; mechatronics; microsystems such as microfluidics; systems engineering; mining engineering; electrical and electronic engineering; mechanical engineering; chemical engineering; materials engineering; industrial engineering; and nanotechnology. The organisation also has expertise in health and medical sciences. In the agricultural sciences, expertise includes agricultural ecology, molecular diagnostics and agroprocessing. Expertise rooted in social sciences includes resource economics.
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In the fields of agricultural and forest water use and water management, the CSIR has skills in the detailed quantification of crop and tree water-use, agrometeorology and surface water- groundwate
The value of waste currently lost to South Africa’s economy through landfilling is estimated to be in excess of R17 billion per annum. Combined with the high unemployment in South Africa, the wast
Ecotoxicology is a scientific discipline combining the methods of ecology and toxicology in studying the effects of toxic substances and especially pollutants on the environment.
The CSIR works in the field of sustainable agriculture both directly and indirectly, focusing on direct applications (such as water use in crops), as well as the broader context (for example, clima