IDIA welcomes Dharam Lal, a visiting scholar. Prof. Dharam is an Associate Professor at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics in Pune, India. He is the Indian project leader for South Africa- India superMIGHTEE collaboration to extend the MIGHTEE project to lower frequencies by combining MeerKAT and the upgraded GMRT observations. Prof. Dharam’s research … Read More
Associate Professor Roger Deane, based at the University of Pretoria, a partner university at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy was involved in the development of simulations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that lead to the visual imaging of what a black hole should look like. Assoc. Prof. Deane worked alongside post-doctoral fellow, Dr Iniyan Natarajan based at … Read More
This week (2 – 5 April) the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the Astronomy Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) will host Dr Fabio Vitello and Dr Ugo Becciani from the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) in Catania (Sicily). They will be working with Dr. Lucia Marchetti, Prof. Russ Taylor, Dr. Tom Jarrett, Dr. Angus Comrie … Read More
We are glad to welcome two new user support specialists for the users on the Ilifu Data Intensive Research Cloud facility. Dr. Jordan Collier and Mr. Dane Kennedy will be joining the IDIA team as Astronomy and Bioinformatics User Support specialists. Their roles will involve the provision of technical support to the astronomy and bioinformatics communities, and will be acting as … Read More
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy at the University of the Western Cape is proud to announce that a new team member has joined us as a postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Fangxia An. Dr. An will be working with IDIA Researcher Dr. Mattia Vaccari on the HELP-IDIA Panchromatic PrOject (HIPPO) on developing techniques to best use multiwavelength data for the … Read More
The University of the Western Cape (UWC), a partner of the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, in their effort to celebrate the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science has honoured Associate Professor Carolina Ödman-Govender for her contribution to science in general, and astronomy in particular. The article celebrates five women at UWC who “are using cutting-edge … Read More
Professor Roy Maartens is the SKA Research Chair at the University of Western Cape. He is a cosmologist who analyzes the large-scale structure of the universe to extract information about the universe and to develop tests of Dark Energy and of Einstein’s General Relativity. MeerKAT and the SKA will allow Prof. Maartens and his fellow researchers to apply these … Read More
Prof. Jan Eloff, UP, Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate studies: Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT Prof. Jan Eloff is the Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate studies: Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT (EBIT) and a full professor in computer science at the University of Pretoria.His research interest is in cyber-security and applied aspects of Big … Read More
Associate Professor Roger Deane is an Associate Professor of Physics at UP. He holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering (2008) from the University of Cape Town, an MSc. in Astrophysics and Space Science (2008) from the University of Cape Town, and a D.Phil in Astrophysics (2012) from the University of Oxford. He has been an SKA Postdoctoral fellow at the … Read More
Professor Alan Christoffels is the director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute and director of the Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Capacity Development Research Unit. In 2009, he became the NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Public Health Genomics. His bioinformatics laboratory studies host-pathogen interactions with a view to understand the regulatory networks that control immune responses to pathogen challenge. … Read More
