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Associate Professor Lizelle Van Dyk Head of School. Research interests: Metals Extraction, Waste-to-Value, Industrial and Mine Water Treatment.

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Associate Professor Saeideh Babaee Senior Lecturer. Research interests: Hydrogen storage, Gas separation, CO2 capture, Water Treatment, Process Simulations, Gas Hydrates, Thermodynamics.
Associate Professor Samson Bada Associate Professor. Research interests: Coal to carbon-based materials, Minerals processing, Biomass and opportunity fuels (characterization & co-combustion) Slagging and fouling, Rare earth elements extraction.
Associate Professor Michael Bodunrin Associate Professor. Research interests: Titanium, Lightweight steels,
Aluminium matrix composites,
High entropy alloys, Thermomechanical processing,
Waste valorisation,
Repair and recycling of assistive devices,
Macroscale modelling, Corrosion and oxidation behaviour of metallic materials.
Associate Professor Mulenga Bwalya Associate Professor.
Mr Mogopoleng Chego Lecturer. Research interests: Activated sludge bioprocesses, Anaerobic digestion, Biogas production, Biohydrogen production, Bioreactor design and operation
Professor Kevin Harding Professor. Research interests: Life-cycle assessment (LCA), Chemical Engineering, Industrial biotechnology, Water footprinting, Higher Education
Dr Hamed Hashemi Senior Lecturer. Research interests: Experimental thermodynamics, Gas hydrates, Properties of fluid phase, Fluid Phase equilibria, Hydrogen storage, Ionic liquids, COSMO-RS.
Dr Antony Higginson Senior Lecturer. Research interests: Process control, Machine learning, Minerals processing, Pulp and paper.
Professor Yusuf Isa Associate Professor. Research interests: Fuels, Carbon materials, Sustainability, Heterogenous catalysts.
Professor Sunny Iyuke Professor. Research interests: Nanotechnology, Fuel Cell Technologies, Renewable Energies
Mr Kitungwa Kabezya Lecturer. Research interests: Melts Flow Modeling, Particulates, Aluminium, Copper, Cobalt.
Dr Shehzaad Kauchali Senior Lecturer. Research interests: Gasification, Underground Coal Gasification, Biomass, Ammonia, Green Hydrogen, Fischer Tropsch, DimethylEther, IGCC, Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Microalge Oils, Pongamia Pinnata.
Dr Desmond Klenam Senior Lecturer. Research interests: Complex concentrated alloys, Additive manufacturing, Ingot metallurgy, Titanium alloys, Low-density steels, Sustainable Materials Development.
Associate Professor Nthabiseng Maledi Associate Professor. Research interests: Welding, Additive manufacturing, Physical metallurgy, Corrosion.
Dr Nandi Malumbazo Senior Lecturer. Research areas: Coal utilization beyond power generation - Extraction of REEs from Coal and Coal Discards, Just Energy Transition, Shale Gas exploitation in South Africa, Coal-bed methane exploitation in South Africa.
Dr Maria Mathabathe Senior Lecturer, Metallurgical Engineering.
Dr Sehai Mokhahlane Senior Lecturer. Research interests: Geohydrology, Hydrogeology, coal engineering
Dr Prebantha Moodley Lecturer. Research interests: Sustainability, Water, Water-energy-carbon-nexus.
Mr Nthape Mphasha Lecturer. Research interests: Cemented Carbides, Cermets, Sintering, Additive Manufacturing, Surface Engineering, Machining.
Dr Alain Nyembwe Lecturer. Research interests: Pyrometallurgy (Fundamentals and Modelling), Granulation - Sintering & Pelletization, Decarbonization of iron and steel production, Production of clean steels and Ferroalloys, Sustainability in Pyrometallurgy, Refractory Materials.
Dr Lisa October Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering.
Dr Samuel Oke Senior Lecturer, Metallurgical Engineering.
Associate Professor Hilary Rutto Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering.
Associate Professor Vusumuzi Sibanda Associate Professor. Research interests: Flotation, Mineral Processing, Process development, Modelling and Design, Waste-to-value, Gas-solid separation.
Professor Geoffrey S. Simate Research interests: Water treatment, Carbon nanotechnology, (Bio)hydrometallurgy, Innovation Studies.
Dr Neil Stacey Lecturer. Research interests: Human Modelling Project, Human Metabolism, Energy, Energy Materials, Optimization, Sustainability, Fluidization.
Associate Professor David Whitefield Associate Professor. Research interests: Additive Manufacturing, Ceramics, Hard Materials, Corrosion Resistance.
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