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UJ Rated Researchers 11 December 2013

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A - Leading international researcher
Researchers who are unequivocally recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their field for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs.

B - Internationally acclaimed researcher
Researchers who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality of their recent research outputs.

C - Established researcher
Established researchers with a sustained recent record of productivity in the field who are recognised by their peers as having produced a body of quality work, the core of which has coherence and attests to ongoing engagement with the field as having demonstrated the ability to conceptualise problems and apply research methods to investigating them.

P - NRF Prestigious Awardee

Young researchers (younger than 35years of age), who have held the doctorate or equivalent qualification for less than five years at the time of application and who, on the basis of exceptional potential demonstrated in their published doctoral work and/or their research outputs in their early post-doctoral careers are considered likely to become future international leaders in their field.

Y - Promising young researcher

Young researchers (below 40 years of age), who have held the doctorate or equivalent qualification for less than five years at the time of application, and who are recognised as having the potential to establish themselves as researchers within a five-year period after evaluation, based on their performance and productivity as researchers during their doctoral studies and/or early post-doctoral careers.

L - Late entrant into research (category terminated at the end of 2009)
Persons (normally younger than 55 years) who were previously established as researchers or who previously demonstrated potential through their own research products, and who are considered capable of fully establishing or re-establishing themselves as researchers within a five-year period after evaluation.

Surname	Initials	Title	Rating category	Institution	Research Specialisations
Ahmed	FE	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Land use, Precision forestry, Vegetation mapping, Applied environmental science, Remote sensing, Forests and forestry, GIS, Geoinformatics, Spatial statistics
Annegarn	HJ	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Atmospheric environment, Renewable energy, Environmental management
Arotiba	OA	Dr	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Electrochemistry, Physical Chemistry
Avenant-Oldewage	A	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Fish Parasitology, Water Quality, Fish parasitic monogenea, Water metal pollution, Crustacean ecology, Crustacean morphology
Beukes	NJ	Prof	Leading international researcher	University of Johannesburg	Economic geology, Sedimentology, Sedimentary geochemistry, Sequence stratigraphy
Cairncross	B	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Coal sedimentology, Sedimentology, Mineralogy, Science education
Coetzee	M	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Wireless communication, World-Wide Web services, Information security, Network security
Connell	SH	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Solid state physics, Nuclear physics, Applied physics, Accelerator physics, High energy physics, Advanced materials
Conradie	WE	Dr	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Logic and Computation, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical, Modal logic
Dankelmann	PA	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Graph theory, Combinatorics
Darkwa	J	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Organometallic Chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Homogeneous catalysis, Polymers, Coordination chemistry
Doyle	BP	Dr	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Surface physics, Electron spectroscopy, Synchrotron X-rays, Electronic structure
Dubery	IA	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Plant biochemistry and molecular biology 2. Analytical biochemistry/ phytochemical analysis
Dutton	MF	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Mycotoxins, Mycology, Environmental health, Food technology
Ehlers	EM	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Software engineering, Artificial intelligence, Intelligent systems, Automata, Formal languages, Image processing
Hearne	GR	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	High pressure research, Experimental condensed matter physics, Materials science
Henning	MA	Prof	Leading international researcher	University of Johannesburg	combinatorics, Graph theory
Hofmann	A	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Archaean studies (Geology)
Janse van Vuren	JH	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Fish haematology, Ecophysiology, Ecotoxicology, Biomarkers, Ecophysiology, Ecotoxicology
Jonck	E	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Graph theory
Karataglidis	S	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Nuclear structure, Nuclear reactions, Nuclear astrophysics, Theoretical physics
Kotze	NJ	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Urban Geography
Kramers	JD	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Isotope geochemistry
Maina	JN	Prof	Leading international researcher	University of Johannesburg	Respiration
Mamba	BB	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Nanomaterials, Science and technology, Water pollution, Organometallic synthesis, Engineering
Meijboom	R	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Coordination chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Crystallography (X-ray), Homogeneous catalysis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Operando spectroscopy
Mishra	AK	Prof	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Nanomaterials, Conductive polymer nanocomposites, Polymer nanocomposites, Water pollution, Composite materials, Carbon nanomaterials, Coordination chemistry, Bioinorganic chemistry
Mishra	S	Dr	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Nanotechnology
Msagati	TAM	Dr	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Chromatographic analysis, Environmental analysis, Separations/mass spectrometry, Mass spectrometry
Mulaba-Bafubiandi	AF	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Materials science, Energy, Material science and technology, Physics, Minerals processing, Microwave energy, Minerals, Minerals beneficiation
Muller	AJ	Dr	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Kinetics/reaction mechanisms, Computational chemistry, Crystallography (X-ray)
Nelwamondo	FV	Prof	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Water demand - Modelling, Regression analysis, Nonlinear time series analysis, Statistical pattern recognition, Computational modelling, Numerical modelling, Image processing, Classification
Ngila	JC	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Environmental/analytical chemist, Electroanalytical chemistry, Analytical polymer science, Environmental analysis, Electroanalytical, Analytical chemistry, Environmental analysis, Adsorption Chemistry, Wood science, Soil and water sciences
Prinsloo	ARE	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Magnetism, Solid state physics, Thin films
Raubenheimer	H	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Functional analysis, Spectral theory of Banach algebras, Banach algebras
Rogerson	CM	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Urban tourism development, Local economic development, Small business development, Tourism - Development, Tourism - Impact, Tourism, Urbanisation and tourism
Sitha	S	Dr	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Computational chemistry, Computational biology, Computational modelling, Quantum chemistry, Quantum electronics, Theoretical chemistry, Theoretical biochemistry, Physical organic chemistry, Physical chemistry
Smit	CA	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Tectonics
Steeb	WH	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Mathematical Tools in Computer Graphics, Mathematical Tools in Signal Processing, Lie Groups Lie Algebras and Computer Algebra, Mathematical physics
Strydom	AM	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Strongly correlated electron systems, Magnetism, Electrical/magnetic measurements, Magnetic properties of matter, Electronic properties/solids, Low temperature physics
Tilney	PM	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Plant anatomy
Van der Bank	FH	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Population genetics
Van der Bank	M	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Molecular systematics, Population genetics, .
Van Dyk	JC	Dr	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Aquatic health, Fish histology
Van Reenen	DD	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Structural geology, Metamorphic petrology, Tectonics
van Vuuren	B	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Phylogeography, Spatial and temporal patterns and processes of biotic diversity across different hierarchical levels from the gene to the ecosystem, Biological invasions, Molecular ecology
Van Wyk	B-E	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	ethnobotany, Medicinal plant chemistry,, Taxonomy, Biodiversity, Medicinal plants, Ethnobotany, Biosystematics
Venter	E	Dr	Promising young researcher	University of Johannesburg	Molecular plant pathology, Plant molecular biology, Plant-insect interactions, Host-plant resistance
Viljoen	KS	Prof	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Economic geology
Von Solms	SH	Prof	Internationally acclaimed researcher	University of Johannesburg	Information security
Wagenaar (Pieterse)	GM	Dr	Established researcher	University of Johannesburg	Fish histology, Ecotoxicology, Physiology, Spermatology, Aquatic health