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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department of Horticultural Sciences
Research Focus: Modelling airflow, heat, and mass transfer in cold chain environments such as refrigerated containers, packaging and cool stores.
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| 30 November 2025 | Dr Alemayehu Ambaw
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Division of Sport & Exercise Medicine
Research Focus: the health and performance of adolescent athletes, including growth and maturation in youth sport.
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| 30 May 2025
| Mrs Susan Crumpton
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Division of Sport & Exercise Medicine and & Division of Physiotherapy.
Research Focus: Prevention and control of non-communicable disease in low-resource settings through innovation, interdisciplinary research, bordering the realm of lifestyle/non-communicable disease management.
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| 30 May 2025
| Mrs Susan Crumpton
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Division of Sport & Exercise Medicine
Research Focus: Injury and illness surveillance in Para athletes and adapted sports medicine.
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| 30 May 2025
| Mrs Susan Crumpton
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
South African Research Chair in Integrated Wine Science
Scope of Research: Charactarise mutant strains using a combination of molecular biology, fluorescence microscopy and fermentation technology to better understand how chitin deposition and remodelling occurs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and how this impacts it's ability to tolerate abiotic and biotic stressors.
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| 30 April 2025
| Prof Florian Bauer
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Centre for Social Justice
Research Focus: Social Justice theme within the CSJ on SDG 10 (equality), SDGI (Zero Poverty) and SDG (Zero Hunger). The subthemes include equity in the economy, including social security, housing, education, health and land.
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| 02 May 2025
| Ms Diane Gahiza
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department of Curriculum Studies
Project Title: Learning impact of translanguaging in multilingual content-based classrooms.
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| 30 April 2025
| Prof Nhlanhla Mpofu
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CIIA)
Scope of Research: Research conducted in the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa with a focus on one or more of the following topics:
- Disinformation Studies
- Artificial Intelligence and African Societies
- Foreign Information Manipulation and Influence (FIMI)
- Social, Economic and Political Drivers of Disinformation in Africa
- Online Hate and Extreme Speech
- Counter-measures to disinformation in Africa, e.g. media literacy, fact-checking, and investigative journalism
- Regulation and Moderation Policy Studies
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| 30 April 2025
| Prof Herman Wasserman
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Gibela Engineering Research Chair & The School for Data Science and Computational Thinking
Project Focus: Digital services where rail models are coupled to operational measurements and data logs to support maintenance information and decisions.
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| Open until the position is filled.
| Prof Annie Bekker
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lancet Commission on Disability and Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Research Focus: Undertaking systematic reviews of disability and health within a transdisciplinary team of leading researchers.
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| Open until the position is filled. | Dr Tracey Smythe
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology
Project Title: Production and production development of entomopathogenic nematodes for small and medium sized enterprises in South Africa.
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| Open from January 2025 until March 2028
| Prof Pia Addison
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Physiotherapy Division
Scope of Research: The Epidemiology of functioning among persons with long-term spinal cord injuries in South Africa
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| Open until the position is filled
| Prof Conran Joseph
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Department of Earth Sciences
Project Title: Isotope Hydrogeology: Radon in Groundwater
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| Open until the position is filled
| Dr Amy Allwright
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies (CRSES)
Research Focus: Conducting scientific research in fields related to bioenergy and biohydrogen production from organic waste.
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| Open until the position is filled
| Prof Cristina Trois
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship:
Eco-evolutionary modelling of biodiversity changes in open adaptive communities.
Scope of Research: This project aims to use mathematical and statistical tools to monitor and predict the dynamics and patterns of community transitions when facing cross-scale stressors, such as habitat loss, biological invasions, and climate change. It brings together advanced mathematical models and statistical methods with real biodiversity data to create in-depth understanding of how ecological communities and interaction networks assemble and operate in changing environments.
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| This call remains open until filled or 31/12/2028
| Ms JE Swart
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