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To meet its mandate of improving the quality of life of South Africans, the CSIR relies on its most important asset, its people. The CSIR’s multidisciplinary nature positions the organisation to help solve the increasingly complex problems of our time. This multidisciplinary science, engineering and technology base is made up of individuals who are highly specialised in their respective fields. They are geneticists, virologists, software developers, polymer chemists, applied mathematicians and industrial engineers, just to name a few.
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De Wet’s key competencies are integrated development planning, strategic environmental and sustainability assessment, facilitating the development of sustainability thinking and prospective planning for sustainability, and the integration of learning and information into transdisciplinary research, development and planning processes.
Verhaeghe’s current research interests are performance-based design procedures, resilience of road infrastructure, adaptation to climate change and capacity building.
Charl’s focus is on coordinating and integrating large integrated security-related projects to ensure maximum return of investment for stakeholders.
Christophe Troch’s area of interest is vessel response, ship navigation, wave modelling and physical model scale projects.