Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor – Department of Chemical Engineering, Stellenbosch University (2025 – Present)
• Senior Lecturer (2022 – 2025)
• Lecturer (2018 – 2022)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Host: Prof. Andre Burger (2017 – 2018) 
  Focus: Development of fundamental thermodynamic models for industrial application.

Education

• PhD Chemical Engineering – Stellenbosch University (2014 – 2016) 
  Thesis: Improvement of the thermodynamic description of polar molecules and their mixtures in the SAFT framework.
• MEng (Research) – Stellenbosch University (2012 – 2013) 
  Focus: Assessment of the capabilities of two polar sPC-SAFT terms.
• BSc Eng (Chemical) – University of the Witwatersrand (2008 – 2011)

Research Interests

• Thermodynamic modelling
• Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (SAFT)
• Thermophysical property measurement (phase equilibrium, spectroscopy)
• Machine learning (specifically applied to chemical thermodynamics)

Selected Publications

A list of published works can be found on his Google Scholar profile.