Faculty of Science

UCT’s Faculty of Science celebrated the achievements of 563 graduates at two graduation ceremonies in March 2023. The number of graduates included 11 doctoral candidates.

Two PhD students from UCT were part of a team of marine scientists who embarked on an offshore expedition to develop the capacity of young southern African scientists and to collect data in outer shelf and deep-sea habitats.

A public seminar titled “Reconstructing Deep-Time Evolution Using Palaeoproteomics” was held at UCT and hosted by the university’s Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI).

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.

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.

A new Nature Ecology & Evolution study predicts when and where climate change is likely to expose species across the globe to potentially dangerous temperatures. Co-author Dr Christopher Trisos is from UCT's ACDI.

UCT researchers Professor Gina Ziervogel and Johan Enqvist, with Environmental Monitoring Group representative Siyabonga Myeza, recently collaborated with arts-based collaborative Interfer to create a new mural along the walls of UCT subway

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.