Faculty of Science

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.

"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 2018 a group of human evolution researchers decided to do things differently and created a new human evolution exhibit that opened in September 2023 at Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town.