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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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Kapangazwiri is a surface water hydrologist with over 15 years’ professional experience in diverse aspects of catchment hydrology, in particular hydrological and systems modelling in diverse basins in southern Africa.
De Wet’s research interests lie in the development of speech and language resources and technology for South Africa’s 11 official languages.
Snedden’s research focuses on gas turbine engines with a range of expertise in areas such as experimental aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics and mechanical design applied in that field.
Von Maltitz specialises in large, integrated multidisciplinary projects involving the interface between humans and natural resource management in the terrestrial environment.