Academic and Research Staff

Justin Jonas

Professor, Chief Technologist of SKA SA

Research interests:

justin@ska.ac.za | (+27) 46 603 7361​

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Oleg Smirnov

SKA Research Chair, since 2012

Research interests:
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oms@ska.ac.za

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Gianni Bernardi

Position

Research interests:
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giannibernardi75@gmail.com

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Landman Bester

Staff, based at SKA SA, since 2016

Research interests:
Bayesian inference and map making techniques in radio-astronomy, ‘Model independent’ approaches to cosmology using numerical relativity.
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landman.bester@gmail.com | ResearchGate

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Roger P. Deane

Senior Research Fellow, based at Rhodes University, since 2015

Research interests:
Binary supermassive black holes, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, event horizon interferometry, wide-field VLBI.
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r.deane@ru.ac.za | GoogleScholar | Personal Webpage

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Trienko L. Grobler

Research Fellow, based at SKA SA, since 2016

Research interests:
Calibration, Epoch of Reionization.
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trienkog@gmail.com | GoogleScholar

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Gyula I. G. Józsa

Senior Astronomer, based at SKA SA, since 2014

Research interests:
Galaxy evolution, interstellar medium, intergalactic medium, galaxy kinematics and dynamics, imaging in interferometry.
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jozsa@ska.ac.za | NASA ADS

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Simon Perkins

Staff, based at SKA SA, since 2016

Research interests:
High Performance and Distributed Computing for Radio Astronomy.
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sperkins@ska.ac.za

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Sandeep

Staff, based at SKA SA, since 20..

Research interests:


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Sphesihle Makhathini

Data Scientist at SKA SA, since 2017

Research interests: Calibration, Imaging, Workflow management


​sphemakh@gmail.com ​