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Academic Staff

Chair of the Department​
 

Prof Linke Potgieter​

Associate Professor
 

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2492

Business Analytics & Operations Research

  Prof Stephan Visagie

Professor

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2254

  Prof Linke Potgieter

Associate Professor
 

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2492

Research focus: OR in health | Agent-based models | Nonlinear and complex systems | Mathematical Biology​
 

Teaching area: Agent-based ​model​ling | Nonlinear optimisat​ion | Decision modelling | OR in industry
 

Research website

  Dr Isabelle Nieuwoudt

Senior Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 3969

  Dr Lieschen Venter

Senior Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 4019

Research focus: Simulation modelling | Behavioural OR | Systems analysis | Education systems

Teaching area: Stochastic methods of OR | Social network analytics | Simulation modelling

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  Kurt Marais

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 3877

Research focus: Natural language processing | Health and wellbeing | Social network analysis | Human-computer interaction

Teaching area: Decision theory | Linear programming

  Gavin Le Roux

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 3981

Research focus: Heuristics | Combinatorial optimisation | Transportation problems | Scheduling

Teaching area: Linear programming | Mathematical modelling | Machine learning | OR in industry

  Bowen Heinrich

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 9670

Research focus: Combinatorial optimisation | Graph theory | Metaheuristics | Heuristics

Teaching area: Combinatorial optimisation | Network optimisation | Inventory control

  Jeanette Thiart

Head Technical Officer / LecturER

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2727

Research focus: School location and accessibility | Routing and scheduling of F1 calendar

Teaching area: Network optimisation | Data visualisation

Logistics Management

  Prof Johan Louw

Associate Professor

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 3412

Research focus: Data visualisation, storytelling & literacy | Warehouse operations management | Packaging logistics

Teaching area: Visual supply chain data analysis | Experiential learning (various) | Process management | Research data analytics

  Anneke De Bod

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 9261

Research focus: Macrologistics | Change management

Teaching area: Project management | Customer service | Logistics strategy, governance and change

  Heinrich Freiboth

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 9491

Research focus: Supply chain analytics | Outbound logistics

Teaching area: Transport and distribution | Logistics analysis | Forecasting

  Ulrike Kussing

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 4173

Research focus: Supply chain skills and competencies | Risk management

Teaching area: Supply chain strategy | Performance management | Risk management | Network design

  Chumasande Lalendle

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2253

Research focus: Meat supply chains | Circular economy | Sustainability | Procurement

Teaching area: Global dimension of supply chains | Strategic sourcing | Supply chain collaboration

  Dr Gculi Khumalo

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2728

Research focus: Cold chain logistics | Packaging logistics | Humanitarian logistics

Teaching area: Logistics management | Supply chain management | Research

Research website

Transport Economics

  Prof Stephan Krygsman

Associate Professor

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2624

Research focus: Transport economics | Urban economics | Spatial economics | Surveys and travel behaviour

Teaching area: Transport economics | Economic development | Competition and regulation | Maritime economics

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  Dr Johann Van Rensburg

Senior Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2879

Research focus: Road user charges | Road funding and financing | Mapping the cost of roads | Road transport management

Teaching area: Transport economics | Project management | International trade

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CV

  Melrick October

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 2412

Research focus: Public transport | Urban and regional economics

Teaching area: Urban and regional economics | Transport economics

  Reginald Kgwedi

Lecturer

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: +27 21 808 3212

Research focus: Public (passenger) transport systems | Transport infrastructure and policy | Maritime transport | Urban logistics

Teaching area: Transport economics | Logistics management | Project management​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​