Prof Lynn Morris

Prof Lynn Morris is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a PhD from the University of Oxford and is Research Professor and founding Director of the Antibody Immunity Research Unit based at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Over the last 30 years she has been involved in HIV vaccine research making significant contributions to understanding the antibody response to HIV. Lynn is an NRF A-rated scientist, has published over 294 papers holding an H-Index of 74 and has featured in the Web of Science list of the world’s most highly cited researchers.

She is a member of Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the Royal Society of South Africa (FRSSA) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Lynn has supervised and mentored over 50 post-graduate students and post-docs many of who have gone on to develop their own successful scientific careers.