The rating system developed by the National Research Foundation (NRF) is a valuable tool for measuring the quality of South African researchers against the best in the world.

Individuals are rated according to the quality and impact of their research over the past 8 years.

A-rated researchers

An A-rating is given to researchers who are recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their field, and for the high quality and impact of their recent research.

P-rated researchers

A P-rating is given to young researchers, usually younger than 35, who have the potential to become leaders in their field.

 

Name Department Faculty
Associate Professor Jessica Auerbach Graduate School of Business Faculty of Commerce
Dr Sarah Fawcett Oceanography Faculty of Science
Dr Geoffrey Howarth Geological Science Faculty of Science
Dr Ryan Nefdt Philosophy Faculty of Humanities
Dr Robyn Pickering Geological Sciences Faculty of Science
Assoc Professor Alistair Price Private Law Faculty of Law
Dr Rosalie Tostevin Geological Sciences Faculty of Science
Dr Christopher Trisos African Climate and Development Initiative Faculty of Science

B, C and Y-rated researchers

B-rated researchers enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality and impact of their recent research.

C-rated researchers are established researchers with a sustained recent record of productivity in their field.

Y-rated researchers are 40 years of age or younger, who have held a doctorate or equivalent qualification for 5 years at the time of application, and who are recognised as having the potential to establish themselves within a 5-year period of the evaluation.

Centre for Higher Education Development

  • Adams, Sabirah
  • Archer, Arlene
  • Bangeni, Abongiwe
  • Cox, Glenda
  • Gachago, Daniela
  • Mhakure, Duncan
  • Thesen, Lucia

Faculty of Commerce

  • Ardington, Cally
  • Bagraim, Jeff
  • Bhorat, Haroon
  • Bick, Geoff
  • Branson, Nicola
  • Brown, Irwin
  • Budree, Adeesh
  • Charteris, Allie
  • Chigona, Wallace
  • Conradie, Beatrice
  • de Jager, Phillip
  • Gossel, Sean
  • Jaga, Ameeta
  • Kabanda, Salah
  • Kerr, Andrew
  • Kotze, Kevin
  • Kyobe, Michael
  • Leibbrandt, Murray
  • Luiz, John
  • Maughan-Brown, Brendan
  • Ngwenyama, Ojelanki
  • Nikolaidou, Eftychia
  • Musango, Josephine
  • Olalere, Oluwaseyi
  • Ophoff, Jacques
  • Parker, Hamieda
  • Rivett, Ulrike
  • Ronnie, Linda
  • Roodt, Sumarie
  • Sarr, Mare
  • Seymour, Lisa
  • Tanner, Maureen
  • Thiam, Djiby
  • Van Belle, Jean-Paul
  • Van Walbeek, Corne
  • Willows, Gizelle
  • Wittenberg, Martin

Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment

  • Alexander, Mark
  • Barendse, Paul
  • Bello-Ochende, Tunde
  • Beushausen, Hans
  • Boje, Edward
  • Bowen, Paul
  • Broadhurst, Jennifer
  • Brown-Luthango, Mercy
  • Chung Kim Yuen, Steeve
  • Coetzer, Nicholas
  • Cohen, Brett
  • Cole, Megan
  • Corin, Kirsten
  • Fagan-Endres, Marijke
  • Falowo, Olabisi
  • Fischer, Nico
  • Folly, Komla
  • Harrison, Sue
  • Isafiade, Adeniyi
  • Kloot, Bruce
  • Kooyman, Patricia
  • Kuppuswamy, Ramesh
  • Langdon, Genevieve
  • Levecque, Pieter
  • Lewis, Alison
  • Low, Iain
  • Mainza, Aubrey
  • Malan, Arnaud
  • Mishra, Amit
  • Mooya, Manya
  • Ngoepe, Malebogo
  • Ng’ambi, Dick
  • Odendaal, Nancy
  • Odera, Patroba
  • Ontong, Krystle
  • Patel, Amir
  • Petersen, Jochen
  • Pillay, Pragasen
  • Rennkamp, Britta
  • Rousseau, Pieter
  • Shoko, Moreblessings
  • Sitas, Rike
  • Skatulla, Sebastian
  • Tucker, Andrew
  • Van Steen, Eric
  • Von Blottnitz, Harro
  • Whittal, Jennifer
  • Windapo, Abimbola
  • Winkler, Harald
  • Zuidgeest, Marcus

Faculty of Health Sciences

  • Adeola, Henry
  • Albertus, Yumna
  • Ataguba, John
  • Barth, Stefan
  • Bhagwandin, Adhil
  • Biccard, Bruce
  • Blackburn, Jonathan
  • Blom, Dirk
  • Bosch, Andrew
  • Brombacher, Frank
  • Chege, Gerald
  • Cochrane, Jim
  • Cohen, Karen
  • Collins, Malcolm
  • Colvin, Chris
  • Constant, Deborah
  • Dalvie, Aqiel
  • Dalvie, Shareefa
  • Dandara, Collet
  • Davies, Neil
  • Dawson-Sqibb, John-Joe
  • De Vries, Petrus
  • de Vries, Jantina
  • Delobelle, Peter
  • Denti, Paolo
  • Dippenaar, Enrico
  • Donald, Kirsty
  • Dyer, Robert
  • Figaji, Anthony
  • Franz, Thomas
  • Friedling, Jacqui
  • Galvaan, Roshan
  • Gibbon, Victoria
  • Goedecke, Julia
  • Gray, Diane
  • Gray, Clive
  • Guler, Reto
  • Gwanyanya, Asfree
  • Heckmann, Jeannine
  • Hendricks, Sharief
  • Hlela, Carol
  • Hockman, Dorit
  • Horsnell, William
  • Hsu, Nai-Jen
  • Jacobs, Muazzam
  • Jeebhay, Mohamed
  • Kassanjee, Reshma
  • Kathard, Harsha
  • Khumalo, Nonhlanhla
  • Koen, Nastassja
  • Laguette, Nancy
  • Lambert, Vicki
  • Lang, Dirk
  • Langerak, Nelleke
  • Lazarus, John
  • Lecour, Sandrine
  • Levin, Michael
  • London, Leslie
  • Luabeya, Angelique Kany
  • Madden, Victoria
  • Marais, Suzaan
  • Maswime, Salome
  • Mathews, Shanaaz
  • Matzopoulos, Richard
  • Mbulawa, Zizipho
  • Mckenzie, Judith
  • Meintjes, Graeme
  • Meintjes, Ernesta
  • Morrow, Brenda
  • Mowla, Shaheen
  • Mulder, Nicola
  • Mutsvangwa, Tinashe
  • Navsaria, Pradeep
  • Ndlovu, Hlumani
  • Ntsekhe, Mpiko
  • Okpechi, Ikechi
  • Oluwole, Oluwafemi
  • Oputu, Ogheneochuko
  • Orrell, Catherine
  • Parihar, Suraj
  • Parker, Romy
  • Pascoe, Michelle
  • Prince, Sharon
  • Rae, Dale
  • Rambharose, Sanjeev
  • Ramma, Lebogang
  • Rauch, Laurie
  • Rayner, Brian
  • Rohlwink, Ursula
  • Roovers, Jan-Paul
  • Ross, Ian
  • Saunders, Colleen
  • Scott, Christiaan
  • Scriba, Thomas
  • Senekal, Marjanne
  • September, Alison
  • Shey, Muki Shehu
  • Sinxadi, Phumla
  • Sliwa-Hahnle, Karen
  • Steyn, Nelia
  • Sturrock, Ed
  • Swart, Jeroen
  • Thomford, Nicholas
  • Van der Spuy, Zephne
  • Van Wyk, Jacqueline (Jacky)
  • Van Zyl-Smit, Richard
  • Von Pressentin, Klaus
  • Wiesner, Joachim Lubbe
  • Williamson, Anna-Lise
  • Wilmshurst, Jo
  • Yssel, Ansie
  • Zilla, Peter
  • Zühlke, Liesl

Faculty of Humanities

  • Adhikari, Mohamed
  • Arnold, Markus
  • Boonzaier, Floretta
  • Bosch, Tanja
  • Bruinders, Sylvia
  • Brundrit, Jean
  • Burger, Barbara
  • Butler, Anthony
  • Cameron, Robert
  • Cochrane, Jim
  • Cooper, Linda
  • Coovadia, Imraan
  • Cornille, Jean-Louis
  • Crankshaw, Owen
  • Dessi, Ugo
  • Evans, Martha
  • Hamilton, Carolyn
  • Hardman, Joanne
  • Hattingh, Annemarie
  • Haupt, Adam
  • Hoadley, Ursula
  • Hull, George
  • Ismail, Salma
  • Josephy, Svea
  • Kallaway, Peter
  • Kaminer, Debbie
  • Lipinska, Malgorzata
  • Long, Wahbie
  • Louw, Johann
  • Luckett, Kathy
  • Makhubu, Nomusa
  • Masango, Charles
  • Mattes, Robert
  • McKinney, Carolyn
  • Moore, Elena
  • Morreira, Shannon
  • Morrell, Robert
  • Muller, Johan
  • Murris, Karin
  • Ndlovu, Musawenkozi
  • Ng'ambi, Dick
  • Nyamnjoh, Francis
  • Ouma, Christopher
  • Porcu, Elisabetta
  • Prinsloo, Mastin
  • Raju, Jayarani
  • Raju, Reggie (Rajandren)
  • Ross, Fiona
  • Rossi, Michael
  • Sandmeier, Rebekka
  • Saunders, Chris
  • Shaikh, Sa'diyya
  • Shain, Milton
  • Shongwe, Mzwandile Muzi
  • Tayob, Abdulkader
  • Toska, Elona
  • Tredoux, Colin
  • van der Schijff, Johann
  • Ward, Catherine
  • Wardle, David
  • Wild, Lauren
  • Young, Sandra

Faculty of Law

  • Amien, Waheeda
  • Barnard-Naude, Jaco
  • Bennett, Tom
  • Chirwa, Danwood
  • Corder, Hugh
  • Darch, Colin
  • De Vos, Pierre
  • Du Toit, Francois
  • Fagan, Anton
  • Glazewski, Jan
  • Hutchison, Andrew
  • Louw, Michelle
  • Mostert, Hanri
  • Murcott, Melanie
  • Ncube, Caroline
  • Ordor, Ada
  • Scott, Helen
  • Woolaver, Hannah

Faculty of Science

  • Abiodun, Babatunde
  • Altwegg, Res
  • Amar, Arjun
  • Anderson, Pippin
  • Attwood, Colin
  • Blyth, Sarah
  • Bolton, John
  • Bordy, Emese
  • Bourne, Susan
  • Brattka, Vasco
  • Bruyns, Peter
  • Buys, Jan Moolman
  • Caira, Mino
  • Carignan, Claude
  • Casini, Giovanni
  • Chavula, Josiah
  • Chimphango, Samson
  • Chirikure, Shadreck
  • Cole, Katie
  • Compton, John
  • Crespo, Olivier
  • Cunningham, Susan
  • Daya, Shari
  • Densmore, Melissa
  • Diener, Johann
  • Dietel, Thomas
  • Dominguez, Cesareo
  • Driver, Kathy
  • Dunsby, Peter
  • Eckardt, Frank
  • Erni, Birgit
  • February, Edmund
  • Gain, James
  • Gammon, David
  • Gillson, Lindsey
  • Govender, Romala
  • Gridley, Teresa
  • Groot, Paul
  • Gumedze, Freedom
  • Haines, Linda
  • Hapgood, Janet
  • Harris, Chris
  • Hawkins, HEIDI
  • Hedderson, Terry
  • Hitzeroth, Inga
  • Hoffman, Timm
  • Horowitz, William
  • Huggett, Jenny
  • Hunter, Roger
  • Hurdayal, Ramona
  • Hutton, Tanya
  • Illing, Nicola
  • Ingle, Rob
  • Janion-Scheepers, Charlene
  • Jardine, Anwar
  • Jarrett, Tom
  • Keaveney, James
  • Keet, Maria
  • Klak, Cornelia
  • Kuttel, Michelle
  • Le Roux, Petrus
  • Leadbeater, Thomas
  • Lennard, Christopher
  • Makhado, Azwianewi Benedict
  • Marais, Patrick
  • Marchetti, Lucia
  • Marco, Heather
  • Meadows, Michael
  • Meyers, Paul
  • Meyers, Ann
  • Midgley, Jeremy
  • Moloney, Coleen
  • Moodley, Deshendran
  • Muasya, Muthama
  • Murugan, Jeff
  • Naidoo, Kevin
  • Nassimbeni, Luigi
  • Nitschke, Geoff
  • Odoulami, Romaric
  • O'Farrell, Patrick
  • Oliver, Clive
  • O'Ryan, Colleen
  • Parkington, John
  • Petersen, Wade
  • Peterson, Steve
  • Pillay, Deena
  • Pinto, Izidine
  • Rafudeen, Mohamed Suhail
  • Ramutsindela, Maano
  • Rodgers, Allen
  • Rohwer, Christian
  • Russo, Francesco
  • Samaai, Toufiek
  • Schauerte, Anneliese
  • Sealy, Judith
  • Shannon, Lynne
  • Silal, Sheetal Prakash
  • Simpson, Nicholas
  • Singh, Vinayak
  • Skokos, Haris
  • Sloan, Alastair
  • Smith, Greg
  • Stynder, Deano
  • Suleman, Hussein
  • Taylor, Andrew
  • Vaccari, Mattia
  • Veale, Clinton
  • Verboom, Tony
  • Vichi, Marcello
  • Visser, Vernon
  • Weigert, Heribert
  • Weltman, Amanda
  • West, Adam
  • Wiggins, Harry
  • Wolski, Piotr
  • Woudt, Patrick
  • Wynberg, Rachel
  • Yacoob, Sahal
  • Ziervogel, Gina