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Faculty of Science
Affiliated Researchers
Honorary Professors
2
Honorary Academic
1
Total
3
Postdoctoral Fellows
12
Total
12
Students
Doctoral
16
Master’s (Research)
2
Master’s (NASSP Dissertation)
16
Master’s (NASSP Coursework)
19
Honours (NASSP)
20
Undergraduate
129
Total
202
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent Staff
Professor Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg (Head of
Department), Co-director ACGC
Large-scale structures and streaming motions in the nearby
Universe, the Zone of Avoidance, systematic HI-surveys,
evolution and transformation of galaxies.
Professor Claude Carignan (SKA SARChI Chair)
Galaxy dynamics and dark matter; astronomical
instrumentation and techniques.
Professor Thomas Jarrett (DST/NRF SARChI
Chair)
Galaxy evolution and star formation, large-scale
structure and bulk-flow motions in the local Universe,
astrophysical databases and large data sets.
Professor Patricia Whitelock (Joint SAAO/UCT
position)
Galactic structure, stellar evolution, Local Group galaxies,
long period variable and symbiotic stars.
Emeritus Distinguished Professor BrianWarner
(Senior scholar)
Cataclysmic variable stars, white dwarf stars, history of
astronomy.
Associate Professor Patrick A. Woudt
Cataclysmic variable stars, ultra-compact binaries, high
time domain astrophysics.
Dr Kurt van der Heyden (Senior Lecturer)
Supernovae and Supernova remnants, systematic HI
surveys, clusters of galaxies, X-ray spectroscopy.
Dr Sarah Blyth (Lecturer)
Large-scale structure, galaxy evolution and galaxy clusters,
HI-surveys.
Dr Vanessa McBride (Lecturer, Joint SAAO/UCT
position)
X-ray binaries, Magellanic Clouds.
Professor Rob Fender (Visiting SKA Professor)
X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes, accretion disks,
radio transient surveys.
Honorary Staff in the Department
Honorary Professor Michael W. Feast &
Honorary Research Associate
Stellar evolution, Galactic structure, long-period variable
stars, distance scale.
Honorary Staff Associated with the
Department
Honorary Professor Phil A. Charles (University
of Southampton)
Cataclysmic variables, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black
holes, accretion disks.
Honorary Professor Erwin de Blok (ASTRON, NL)
Dark matter in disk galaxies, low-surface brightness
galaxies, HI surveys, the interstellar medium in nearby
galaxies, evolution of dark galaxies.
Professor Peter Dunsby
Honorary Academic, Director NASSP, Co-director ACGC
Theoretical cosmology and gravity.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Garry Angus
Cosmological simulations with modified Newtonian
Dynamics.
Dr Richard Armstrong
Radio transients, radio interferometric techniques.
Dr Maciej Bilicki
Cosmology, large-scale structure of the Universe, cosmic
density and velocity fields, redshift and peculiar velocity surveys,
cosmic flows.