Monthly Archives: January 2010

I was born in Zambia and moved to South Africa at the age of 10. I majored in statistics, actuarial science and physics. I obtained my Masters degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2006 and my PhD from … Continue reading →

After doing a BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) I went to SISSA in Trieste for the PhD, followed by a post-doc at Oxford and a year later, in 1999, moved as a … Continue reading →

I was born in Cape Town and have lived here for most of my life. After studying pure maths and statistics as an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town (UCT), in 2008 I did honours in applied maths at … Continue reading →

I was born in Moanda, an unforgettable small town in the south eastern part of Gabon. Initially, I studied Mathematics. First in Gabon for my undergraduate and then at Metz University (France) up to the Honours level in Applied Mathematics. … Continue reading →

I was born in Kuorevesi, which is nowadays part of Jämsä in central Finland. I obtained my MSc from the University of Helsinki, including an exchange semester in Erasmus program at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. I did my PhD at the University … Continue reading →

He was born in 1980 in the North-West of Italy. After B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics at University of Turin, he obtained the PhD in Astroparticle Physics at SISSA, Trieste. He works as a post-doc at UCT … Continue reading →

I was born and raised in South Africa. I obtained my BSc in Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and then went on to study a MPhil in Management at Cambridge University. After that I spent a … Continue reading →

Born and bred South African, I grew up in Johannesburg. I did my undergraduate degree in Physics and Maths at Rhodes University, in the Eastern Cape. There, as well as studying, I was very involved in the Astronomy Society and … Continue reading →

I was born and brought up in London, and loving the city so much, I studied Mathematics at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, before making a large jump to completing an MSc in Astronomy at the University of … Continue reading →

I’m an SKA Research Fellow based at SAAO in Cape Town and at AIMS. I completed my PhD in Cosmology at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2003. After a few months at UNESCO and at AIMS, I worked as … Continue reading →