Qualifications:

• BSc Eng (Chem Eng) UCT (1990)
• MSc Eng (Chem Eng) UCT (2001)

Undergraduate Teaching:

• Process & Equipment Design
• Heat Transfer

Research Affiliations:

• Crystallization & Precipitation Unit (CPU)

Research Interests:

• Crystallisation and Precipitation Unit: Techno-economic comparison of minewater treatment processes; design of pilot-plant for demonstration and development of eutectic freeze crystallization.
• Catalysis Institute: Techno-economic evaluation of green energy process (GreenQUEST)
• Chemical engineering education: Curriculum design; curriculum decolonization; analysis of throughput issues
• Medical technology: Application of chemical engineering principles to gravity-fed continuous-flow peritoneal dialysis

Biography:

Born (in 1968) and raised in Johannesburg, I moved Cape Town as an undergraduate Chemical Engineering student from 1987-1990.  From 1991-1997 I worked in the fine chemicals and petrochemicals industry, first in Johannesburg then in the United States (New Jersey).  After a world-travel hiatus, I worked as a researcher at the Technical University of Munich from 1999-2000, obtaining an MSc in Chemical Engineering through UCT (in the field of zeolite catalysis) during this period.  From 2001-2007, I lectured and developed materials in Technology Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg and Durban, before joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCT in 2007, initially as a part-time contract lecturer (and primary parental care-giver), but in a permanent Senior Lecturer post since 2013.  Although my chief interest has been in undergraduate teaching and curriculum development, I have developed research interests (and published papers) in engineering education, medical technology, green energy and minewater treatment, in which I am currently pursuing a PhD.