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Thokozani Majozi is a full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP). His main research interest is batch process integration. His major contributions to research to date are the development of a continuous-time framework for the synthesis of batch plants and a novel technique for near zero-effluent batch chemical facilities. Both these contributions have been adopted by industry. He started his professional career as a junior process engineer at Unilever in 1994. In 1996 he was appointed as a senior process engineer: competency improvement specialist at Dow AgroSciences and in 2002 he joined Sasol Technology as a technology leader for optimization and integration. He was appointed as an associate professor at UP in 2004 and promoted to a full professor at the end of 2008. He was also an associate professor in computer science at the University of Pannonia in Hungary from 2005 to 2009. Majozi completed his BScEng (Chemical) degree in 1994 and his MScEng degree (Chemical) in 1998 at the University of Natal. In 2002 he completed his PhD (Process Integration) at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the United Kingdom (UK). He is a member of various scientific committees and organisations including the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE), the international Process Systems Engineering (PSE) conference, a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf), a Fellow for the CSIR and a Fellow for the Academy of Engineering of SA. He is also a Vice-President for ECSA and Vice-Chairman of CBE. He has received numerous awards for his research including the Zdenek Burianec Memorial Award (Italy, 2005), National Science and Technology Forum Award for Distinguished researcher in the last five to ten years (2006) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) President’s Award (P-rating, 2007), NRF President’s Award (Transformation of the Scientific Cohort, 2008) and the University of Pretoria Leading Minds Award (2008). Recently he won the prestigious S2A3 British Association Medal (Silver), thereby becoming the first black individual to receive it since it was established in 1932, and the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers Bill Neal-May Gold Medal. Majozi is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications, including a book in Batch Chemical Process Integration published by Springer in January 2010.
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