Employment
Senior Lecturer
The University of South Africa (UNISA)
Here, I teach undergraduate and Honours level astrophysics courses.
February 2025 - present
Lecturer
The University of Johannesburg (UJ)
In this position, I taught an electrodynamics course to second-year engineering students and a course on astrophysical radiative processes for fourth-year physics majors.
January 2021 - December 2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)
As a postdoc, I began 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
- Recognised as one of Mail & Guardian's "200 Young South Africans" to excel in their respective fields
- Recipient of an NRF (National Research Foundation) funding grant through the BAAP (Black Academic Advancement Program) of 2023
- ESO Ph.D. Studentship (2016 - 2019)
- Admission to the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Astrophysics Ph.D. Class of 2016 - 2019
- Scholarship recipient in the NRF-SKA (Square Kilometer Array) BSc and MSc Bursary Program (2011 - 2015)