Amoré Nel

Amoré’s research focuses on geomagnetic field modelling and black auroras.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Research Scientist
Qualification: PhD

His research interests include regional modelling of ionospheric parameters, low and mid latitude electrodynamics, and investigations leading to understanding physical mechanisms driving ionospheric dynamics especially during disturbed conditions.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Researcher
Qualification: PhD

Lerato Shikwambana

Lerato works at SANSA’s Earth Observation (EO) directorate. His research is focussed on aerosol transport, the impact of green house gases on the climate, and related long term trends.

Unit: Earth Observation
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Research Scientist
Qualification: PhD

Michael Kosch

His research has focused mainly on auroral physics and the electrodynamics of the polar upper-atmosphere.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Chief Scientist
Qualification: PhD

Tshimangadzo Matamba

Matamba is currently a post-doctoral research fellow and her research focus is on scintillation effects on navigation accuracy for aviation forecasting tool.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Qualification: PhD

Mpho Tshisaphungo

Mpho is currently the Space Weather Practitioner at SANSA. She is responsible for coordinating and managing the Space Weather Centre as well as ensuring that the space weather services reach the end-users.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Space Weather Pracitioner
Qualification: MSc (Physics)

Pierre Cilliers

He has supervised several postgraduate students at SANSA and has co-authored more than 70 peer reviewed publications since joining SANSA.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Researcher
Qualification: BEng, BEng(Hons), MS, PhD, PrEng

Rendani Nndanganeni

Rendani is currently the Space Weather Researcher at SANSA working under the space weather unit.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Space Weather Researcher
Qualification: PhD (Space Physics)

Stefan Lotz

Research focussing on space weather, geomagnetically induced currents, VLF waves, and the application of novel machine learning methods to space physics problems.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Research Scientist
Qualification: PhD

Shimul Maharaj

He is currently employed as Research Physicist at SANSA Space Science and his area of research expertise is the theory of linear and nonlinear waves in space plasmas.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Research Physicist
Qualification: PhD

Zama Katamzi-Joseph

Her main research interests include ionospheric dynamics and the influence of geomagnetic storms, thermospheric dynamics from neutral winds measurements, coupling between the thermosphere and ionosphere through traveling ionospheric disturbances and tides.

Unit: SRA
Affiliation: SANSA
Position: Researcher
Qualification: PhD

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