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Head of Department
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Prof C Theron
Title: Professor of physics
Research Area: Solid State Physics & Nuclear Materials Research
Areas of specialization: RBS, surface interactions
Teaching: Modelling & simulations PHY255, Honours Solid State Physics PHY711
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-36
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2455
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Secretary
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Mrs E A Meyburgh
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-36
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2455
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Academic staff
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Prof F D Auret
Title: Professor of Physics
Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films
Teaching: Heat & Thermodynamics PHY255, Electronic materials PHY713
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-6
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2684
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Prof N Chetty
Curriculum Vitae
Title: Professor of physics
Areas of Specialisation: Quantum mechanical studies of solid state systems, density functional theory, the plane wave pseudopotential method; Computational physics education research
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Dr M Diale
Title: Senior Lecturer
Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films
Teaching: Physics PHY 153
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-7
Tel:+27-(0)12-420 4418
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Prof R Duvenhage
Title: Associate Professor
Research Area: Mathematical physics
Areas of Specialisation: Quantum dynamical systems and ergodic theory
Teaching: Classical Dynamics PHY702, Statistical Physics PHY704
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-48
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2790
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Dr T Hlatswayo
Title: Lecturer
Research Area: Nuclear materials
Teaching: Physics PHY 143
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-59
Tel:+27-(0)12-420-4777
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Mr J Janse van Rensburg
Title: Lecturer
Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films
Areas of Specialisation: Radiation defects in semiconductors
Teaching: First course in Physics PHY 124 & PHY 163
Office : Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-2
Tel:+27-(0)12-420-3507
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Dr TPJ Krüger
Title: Senior Lecturer
Research Area: Biophysics
Areas of Specialisation: Photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, protein dynamics, bio-inspired solar cells
Teaching: Physical Optics PHY 263
Office : Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-24
Tel:+27-(0)12-420-2508
E-mail: Tjaart.Kruger@up.ac.za
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Mr D Langa
Title: Lecturer
Research Area: Nuclear Materials and Surface Physics
Teaching: Mechanics & Thermodynamics PHY 144
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-22
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-3132
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Mr M Legodi
Title: Lecturer
Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films
Teaching: Electromagnetism PHY 356
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-5
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-4413
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Mr A G J Machatini
Title: Lecturer
Research Area: Group Theory
Teaching: Physical Optics PHY 263
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-57 (Main Campus)
Physics and Chemistry Building, F223 (Mamelodi Campus)
Tel: +27-(0)12-420 2459 (Main Campus)
+27-(0)12-842-3536 (Mamelodi Campus)
E-mail: 
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Prof N Manyala
Curriculum Vitae
Title: Associate Professor and Deputy SARCHI Chair in Carbon Technology and Materials
Research Area: Carbon Technology and Materials
Teaching: Physics of Materials PHY 263
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-6 (Main Campus)
South Campus 2, Room 1-36
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2908/3549
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Prof W Meyer
Title: Associate Professor
Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films
Teaching: First course in physics PHY 114, Electronics PHY 356
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-44
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2637
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Dr C Moji
Title: Senior lecturer
Research Area: Physics education
Teaching: Physics PHY 133
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-11
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-4778
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Dr J Nel
Title: Senior lecturer
Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films
Teaching: First-year engineering physics FSK 126
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-11
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-3580
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Mr Q Odendaal
Title: Lecturer
Teaching: General Physics PHY 131
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-51
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-3903
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Prof S Rakitianski
Curriculum Vitae
Title: Professor of physics
Research Area: Quantum Few-Body Theory
Areas of specialization: Quantum resonances, computational methods in quantum few-body theory, meso-nuclear and hyper-nuclear systems.
Teaching: Mathematical Methods PHY701, Quantum mechanics PHY 703
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-53
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-3173
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Prof PA Selyshchev
Title: Professor of physics
Research Area: Complex Systems
Areas of specialization: Complex non-linear systems and their evolution
Teaching: Statistical physics PHY 364
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-70
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-6641
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Claudia Zander
Title: Lecturer
Research Area: Quantum Entanglement
Teaching: Quantum mechanics PHY 356, Electrodynamics PHY 705, Classical Dynamics PHY 255
Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-4
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-
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Associated staff
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Prof H Alberts
Title: Professor of Physics
Teaching: Engineering physics FSK 176
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-24
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2508
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Prof L Bredell
Title: Associate Professor in Physics
Teaching: Radiation Physics RF 110, RFI220
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-15
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2787
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Prof JCA Boeyens
More detailed personal information
Title: Extraordinary Professor
Research interest: Quantum chemistry
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-29
Tel : +27 (0)12 420 4528
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Prof P Chakraborty
More detailed personal information
Title: Honorary Professor
Presently ‘Senior Professor of Physics’ at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
Research interest: Atomic collisions in solids, SIMS, RBS, XPS, XTEM, XRR, MBE
Tel : +91 33 2337 5345-49 (5 lines) Extn : 1215 (India)
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Prof E K H Friedland
More detailed personal information
Title: Extraordinary Professor
Research Area: Nuclear materials
Teaching: Nuclear Solid-state Physics PHY715
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-17
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2453
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Prof D Grayson
Title: Professor Extraordinarius
Research Area: Physics Education
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Prof W Gries
More detailed personal information
Title: Honorary Professor
Research Area: Cognitive Physical Science
Research Interest: Implications of findings of the cognitive sciences for physical science
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Prof H W Kunert
Title: Associate Professor of Physics
Research Area: Group theory
Teaching: Group Theory PHY716
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-49
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2636
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Prof J B Malherbe
Detailed personal information
Title: Professor of Physics
Research Area: Nuclear materials & surface physics
Teaching: Vibrating systems & waves PHY 255, Analytical Physics PHY 714 (Hons)
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-66
Tel: +27 (0)12 420 2455
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Dr N van der Berg
Title: Senior Lecturer
Research Area: Surface physics & Nuclear materials
Teaching: Radiography RFI 210
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-20
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-3115
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Prof J van der Merwe
Title: Honorary Professor
Research Area: Theory of Epitaxy
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-56
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2459
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Prof J van Staden
Title: Honorary Professor
Teaching: Exploring the Universe SCI 154/164
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-18
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2470
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Support Staff
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Mr G Chabangu
Title: Messenger
Office: Natural Sciences 1 Room 5-36
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Mrs L Cilliers
Title: First-year practical coordinator
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-16
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-4168
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Mrs R du Toit
Title: First-year practical coordinator
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-17
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-4964
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Mr D Joubert
Title: Mechanical technician
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 1-27
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-6806
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Mr J Motsoeneng
Title: First-year practical coordinator (Mamelodi)
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-8
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-4967
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Mrs L Prinsloo
Title: First Technical Assistant (Raman & FTIR)
Research: Optical Characterisation
Areas of Specialisation: Raman & Infrared Spectroscopy
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 5-26
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2458
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Mr S Shithlane
Title: Workshop assistant
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 1-27
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Mr J Smith
Title: Electronics technician
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-32
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2863
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Mr A van den Heever
Title: Technical Assistant first-year laboratory
Office: Natural Sciences 1, Room 4-14
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-2094
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Dr David Dodoo-Arhin
Postdoctoral fellow
Office: Natural Sciences 1, 4-12
Tel: +27-(0)12-420-4538
Research Area: Carbon Technology and Materials
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Dr Trisha Salagaram
Postdoctoral fellow
Office: Natural Sciences 1, 5-13
Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics
E-mail: 
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Dr Matthias Schmidt
Link to personal website
Postdoctoral fellow
Office: Natural Sciences 1, 5-6
Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films
E-mail: 
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Dr Aniekan Ukpong
Research Fellow
Office: Natural Sciences 1, 5-13
Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics
E-mail: 
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Last edited by: Johan Janse van Rensburg