Employment
Lecturer
The University of Johannesburg (UJ)
In this position, I teach an electrodynamics course to second-year engineering students and a course on astrophysical radiative processes for fourth-year physics majors.
Additionally, my research with the MeerKAT/MIGHTEE working group continues and I maintain an institutional affiliation with IDIA.
January 2021 - present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)
As a postdoc, I begun research that makes primary use of MeerKAT and uGMRT radio continuum data (in addition to multiwavelength ancillary data) to study galaxy evolution.
January 2020 - December 2020
Ph.D. Student
The European Southern Observatory (ESO)
During this time, I worked primarily with VLT/MUSE and ALMA data to study the kinematics and chemical evolution of the extended emission nebulae surrounding high-redshift radio galaxies.
August 2016 - December 2019
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Accomplishments and Funding Awarded
- 2024 Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans award winner in the category of education.
- 2023 recipient of the NRF (National Research Foundation) BAAP (Black Academic Advancement Program) funding grant.
- 2016 receipient of a three-year ESO Ph.D. Studentship over the period of 2016 to 2019.
- 2011 Recipient of NRF-SKA (Square Kilometer Array) B.Sc. and M.Sc. scholarships over the period of 2011 to 2015.