Dr Wade Petersen, from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science, has been announced as the winner of the Royal Society’s Rising Star Africa Prize for 2023.

Professor Kelly Chibale, who holds the Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development, and director of the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre at UCT, has been awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize 2023

Professor Daniel Pisano, UCT’s new DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Extragalactic Multi-wavelength Astronomy, is passionate about paying forward his skills, expertise and his international contacts,to support the journeys of future stargazers.

UCT's Professor Chris Reason, Department of Oceanography, has been announced as one of the international Royal Meteorological Society award winners for 2022 in the Geoscience Data Journal (GDJ) Editors’ Award division.

"The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) is in extremely capable hands,” said Professor Mark New of his successor, Associate Professor Gina Ziervogel, who recently took the helm as the director of the UCT flagship

In gathering the botanical data for his PhD, UCT's Brian du Preez clocked up some impressive numbers scouring the Greater Cape Floristic Region’s (GCFR) remote regions: hundreds of kilometres on foot in mountains and kloofs, and by car.

Michael Hlabathe will graduate with his PhD in astrophysics from UCT in July for his investigation into active galactic nuclei. Throughout his academic journey, his passion for his field has led him to reach for the stars.

Four years after taking up a position as the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Maano Ramutsindela is stepping down to return to his first love: research and teaching.

When he first found himself on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT) as the employee of a contracted cleaning company, Frederick Stellenboom had no idea that he would encounter opportunities beyond his expectations.

Associate Professor Sheetal Silal, director of the Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa (MASHA) invited the postgraduate student cohort and staff at MASHA to celebrate Africa Day and reflect on what it means to be African.

Associate Professor Deshen Moodley was recently awarded the DSI/NRF-UCT SARChI Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems, in the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town.