Faculty of Science

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.

Professor Jeff Murugan from the Faculty of Science at UCT presented his Inaugural Lecture “The Future is Quantum – a random walk in the landscape of mathematical physics”.

The director of UCT's African Climate and Development Initiative Mark New, along with fellow researchers have been awarded the prestigious Frontiers Planet Prize for their research on nature-based solutions and climate change.