About CeBER
CeBER strives to equip scientists at the postgraduate level with expertise that will allow them to excel in every sector of the bioprocess arena, from research to industry.
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Research Areas
CeBER have five main research areas which include: Algal Biotechnology; Mineral Bioprocessing; Biocatalysis & Bioproducts; Water & the Environment; and Engineering Aspects of Bioprocesses.
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Chemical Engineering
Home to the largest national research programme, the Chemical Engineering Department provides a range of research opportunities that help tackle social and environmental challenges in South Africa, Africa and the world.
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Researchers
CeBER is home to an array of researchers that supervise and add expertise to projects within the Bioprocess Engineering sector. This diversity spans everything from reactor design to microbial engineering.
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The annual CeBER Lab course for new students is late and distant, but live!
Some parts of research cannot be done virtually, and laboratory experiments are one of those. So the 2020 CeBER Laboratory Techniques course has been delayed by COVID-19 containment measures. But now it is up and running ... with a difference!
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2021 Invitation to Apply for MSc
Are you currently completing a BSc Honours in Microbiology or a BSc in Chemical Engineering? Do you want to contribute to really worthwhile research, towards mitigating climate change and producing value with a negligible ecological
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The CeBER Team fills in new spaces
Thanos Kotsiopoulos is now the Deputy Director of CeBER, coordinating our research teams for good collaboration as our multi-talented researchers tackle our portfolio of projects.
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CeBER's Director, Sue Harrison, is taking UCT further
CeBER has now had three weeks' to get used to sharing our Director with the whole of UCT. On 01 August Sue Harrison began in earnest with the momentous task of Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation here at UCT.&nbs
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