Kerry Porrill was awarded Stellenbosch University’s top honour – the Chancellor’s Medal (2025). The Chancellor’s Medal was first instituted in 1961. Porrill is a graduate from the Mathematics Division within the Faculty of Science and this week graduated with a BSc Honours in Mathematics.

Prof Yin-Zhe Ma holds a joint research chair in computational astronomy

The primary focus of the Barbour group is to develop the tools to understand counterintuitive behaviour (particularly the dynamics of structural flexibility) of porous materials.

Willem Visser is a part-time professor in the Division of Computer Science at Stellenbosch University.

Professor Andries Engelbrecht is currentlly a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) and the Division of Computer Science (Faculty of Science)

Director for the School for Climate Studies

Dave Richardson was Director of the South African Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology between 2012 and 2022 and is currently Professor of Ecology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

South African Research Chair (SARChi) in Mechanistic Modelling of Health and Epidemiology

Prof Albena Lederer leads a research group that extends across the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University and the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (IPF).

Prof André Weideman is a distinguished professor in the Applied Mathematics Division