The National Research Foundation's (NRF) rating system is central to its goal of building a globally competitive science system in South Africa. 

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

C-rated researchers are regarded as 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 five years at the time of application, and who are recognised as having the potential to establish themselves within a five-year period of the evaluation.

For more information on the NRF ratings, visit the NRF website.

Centre for Higher Education Development

Archer, Arlene
Davidowitz, Bette
Jawitz, Jeff

Shay, Suellen
Thesen, Lucia
Tupper, Gary

Faculty of Commerce

Ardington, Cally
Bagraim, Jeff
Bhorat, Haroon
Bick, Geoff
Branson, Nicola
Brown, Irwin
Budree, Adheesh
Chigona, Wallace
Conradie, Beatrice
Daniels, Reza
de Jager, Phillip
Georg, Co-Pierre
Gossel, Sean
Grzybowski, Lukasz
Hamann, Ralph
Kabanda, Salah
Kerr, Andrew
Koelble, Thomas
Kyobe, Michael
Leibbrandt, Murray

Luiz, John
Maughan-Brown, Brendan
Moultrie, Tom
Muchapondwa, Edwin 
Nikolaidou, Eftychia      
Ngwenyama, Ojelanki
Ophoff, Jacques
Rivett, Ulrike
Ronnie,  Linda
Roodt, Sumarie
Ross, Hana
Sarr, Mare
Sewchurran, Kosheek
Seymour, Lisa
Tanner, Maureen
Thiam, Djiby
Van Belle, Jean-Paul
Van Walbeek, Corne
Wittenberg, Martin
Willows, Gizelle

Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment

Alexander, Mark
Armitage, Neil
Barendse, Paul
Bello-Ochende, Tunde
Berlanda, Tomà
Beushausen, Hans
Boje, Edward
Bowen, Paul
Brown-Luthango, Mercy
Case, Jennifer
Chowdhury, Sunetra
Chung Kim Yuen, Steeve
Coetzer, Nicholas
Cohen, Brett
Corin, Kirsten
Fagan-Endres, Marijke
Falowo, Olabisi
Fischer, Nico
Folly, Komla
Gaunt, Trevor
Griffiths, Melinda
Harrison, Sue
Isafiade, Adeniyi
Knutsen, Robert
Kooyman, Patricia
Kuppuswamy, Ramesh

Langdon, Genevieve
Levecque, Pieter
Lewis, Alison
Low, Iain
Mainza, Aubrey
Malan, Arnaud
Mishra, Amit
Mooya, Manya
Ngoepe, Malebogo
Odendaal, Nancy
Odera, Patroba
Oldfield, Sophie
Ontong, Krystle
Opitz, Elaine
Patel, Amir
Petersen, Jochen
Pillay, Pragasen
Pirie, Gordon
Rennkamp, Britta
Rousseau, Pieter
Skatulla, Sebastian
Van Steen, Eric
Von Blottnitz, Harro
Watson, Vanessa
Whittal, Jennifer
Windapo, Abimbola
Winkler, Harald
Winkler, Tanja
Zingoni, Alphose
Zuidgeest, Marcus

Faculty of Health Sciences

Adeola, Henry
Ataguba, John
Barth, Stefan
Beighton, Peter
Bekker, Linda-Gail
Bezuidenhout, Deon
Biccard, Bruce
Blackburn, Jonathan
Blom, Dirk
Bosch, Andrew
Boulle, Andrew
Bruijns, Stevan
Chege, Gerald
Chimusa, Emile
Cochrane, Jim
Cohen, Karen
Collins, Malcolm
Colvin, Chris
Coussens, Anna
Dalvie, Aqiel
Dandara, Collet
Davies, Mary-Ann
Davies, Neil
de Vries, Jantina
De Vries, Petrus
Denti, Paolo
Donald, Kirsty
Dyer, Robert
Ehrlich, Rodney
Franz, Thomas
Friedling, Jacqui
Gibbon, Victoria
Gilson, Lucy
Goedecke, Julia
Gray, Clive
Greenberg, Jacquie
Guler, Reto
Gwanyanya, Asfree
Hatherill, Mark
Heckmann, Jeannine
Hendricks, Sharief
Hlela, Carol
Hockman, Dorit
Hodkinson, Bridget
Horsnell, William
Hoving, Claire (Jennifer)
Howells, Fleur
Jacobs, Muazzam
Jeebhay, Mohamed
Jelsma, Jennifer
Kassanjee, Reshma
Kathard, Harsha
Khumalo, Nonhlanhla
Kleintjes, Sharon
Knight, Lucia
Koen, Nastassja
Kuzamunu, Gaston
Lambert, Mike
Lambert, Vicki
Lang, Dirk
Langerak, Nelleke
Lecour, Sandrine
Levin, Michael
Levitt, Naomi
London, Leslie

Luabeya, Angelique
Madden, Victoria
Mall, Anwar
Marais, Suzaan
Masson, Lindi
Mathews, Shanaaz
Matzopoulos, Richard
Mbulawa, Zizipho
Mckenzie, Judith
Meintjes, Graeme
Morris, Alan
Morrow, Brenda
Mulder, Nicola
Müller, Alexandra
Navsaria, Pradeep
Ndlovu, Hlumani
Ntsekhe, Mpiko
Okpechi, Ikechi
Olivier, Jil
Oni, Tolullah
Orrell, Catherine
Parihar, Suraj
Parker, Iqbal
Parker, Romy
Pascoe, Michelle
Peter, Jonathan
Potter, Paul
Prince, Sharon
Rae, Dale
Raimondo, Joseph
Rambharose, Sanjeev
Rauch, Laurie
Rayner, Brian
Roovers, Jan-Paul
Ross, Ian Louis
Saunders, Colleen
Schäfer, Georgia
Schneider, Marguerite
Scriba, Thomas
Seebregts, Chris
Senekal, Marjanne
September, Alison
Shey, Muki
Sivarasu, Sudesh
Sliwa-Hahnle, Karen
Steyn, Nelia
Sturrock, Ed
Swart, Jeroen
Tameris, Michele
Thomford, Nicholas
Thomson, Sandie
Van As, Sebastian
Van der Spuy, Zephne
van der Watt, Pauline
Van Zyl-Smit, Richard
Wallis, Lee
Watermeyer, Brian
Wiesner, Joachim Lubbe
Williamson, Anna-Lise
Wilmshurst, Jo
Zilla, Peter
Zühlke, Liesl

Faculty of Humanities

Adhikari, Mohamed
Alexander, Jane
Arnold, Markus
Boonzaier, Floretta
Bosch, Tanja
Brookes, Heather
Bruinders, Sylvia
Brundrit, Jean
Butler, Anthony
Cameron, Robert
Cooper, Linda
Coovadia, Imraan
Cornille, Jean-Louis
Crankshaw, Owen
Dessi, Ugo
Deumert, Ana
Dutton, Yasin
Evans, Martha
Godby, Michael
Hamilton, Carolyn
Hardman, Joanne
Hattingh, Annemarie
Haupt, Adam
Hoadley, Ursula
Hull, George
Hurst, Ellen
Huyssen, Hans
Ismail, Salma
Josephy, Svea
Kallaway, Peter
Kaminer, Debbie
Klatzow, Peter
Langerman, Fritha
Levine, Susan
Long, Wahbie
Louw, Johan

Luckett, Kathy
Makhubu, Nomusa
Marie, Annabelle
Masango, Charles
Matose, Frank
Mattes, Robert
Mbali, Mandisa
McKinney, Carolyn
Moore, Elena
Morreira, Shannon
Morrell, Robert
Muller, Johan
Murris, Karin
Ndlovu, Musawenkozi
Ng'ambi, Dick
Nyamnjoh, Francis
Ouma, Christopher
Pande, Amrita
Penn, Nigel
Pentecost, Michelle
Porcu, Elisabetta
Prinsloo, Mastin
Protogerou, Charikleia-Maria (Cleo)
Raju, Jayarani
Raju, Reggie
Ross, Fiona
Rossi, Michael
Roth, Roman
Sandmeier, Rebekka
Saunders, Chris
Shaikh, Sa'diyya
Shain, Milton
Shongwe, Mzandile Muzi
Tayob, Abdulkader
Tredoux, Colin
Twidle, Hedley
van der Schijff, Johann
Van Sittert, Lance
Ward, Catherine
Wardle, David
Wasserman, Herman
Worden, Nigel
Young, Sandra

Faculty of Law

Amien, Waheeda
Barnard-Naude, Jaco
Bennett, Tom
Chirwa, Danwood
Corder, Hugh
Darch, Colin
De Vos, Pierre
Fagan, Anton
Feris, Loretta
Glazewski, Jan
Himonga, Chuma
Howell, Simon

Hutchison, Andrew
Mostert, Hanri
Ncube, Caroline
Ordor, Ada
Schwikkard, Pamela
Scott, Helen

 

Faculty of Science

Abiodun, Babatunde
Ackermann, Rebecca
Altwegg, Res
Amar, Arjun
Anderson, Pippin
Ansorge, Isabelle
Attwood, Colin
Backeberg, Bjorn
Barnard, Phoebe
Barnett, Christopher
Blyth, Sarah
Bolopo, Diana
Bolton, John
Bordy, Emese
Bourne, Susan
Brattka, Vasco
Bruyns, Peter
Buffler, Andy
Caira, Mino
Carignan, Claude
Chimphango, Samson
Chirikure, Shadreck
Compton, John
Coyne, Vernon
Cramer, Michael
Crespo, Olivier
Cunningham, Susan
De La Cruz Dombriz, Alvaro
Densmore, Melissa
DeRenzi, Brian
Diener, Johann
Dietel, Thomas
Dominguez, Cesareo
Driver, Kathy
Dunsby, Peter
Eckardt, Frank
Egan, Tim
Erni, Birgit
February, Edmund
Gain, James
Gammon, David
Gillson, Lindsey
Govender, Romala
Gridley, Teresa
Griffiths, Charles
Groot, Paul
Gumedze, Freedom
Haines, Linda
Harris, Chris
Hedderson, Terry
Hitzeroth, Inga
Hoffman, Timm
Horowitz, William
Huggett, Jenny
Hunter, Roger
Hurdayal, Ramona
Ianovsky, Alexander
Illing, Nicola
Ingle, Rob
Janelidze-Gray, Tamar
Jardine, Anwar
Jarrett, Tom
Keaveney, James

Keet, Maria
Klak, Cornelia
Kraan-Korteweg, Renee
Kuttel, Michelle
Lacerda, Miguel
Larena, Julien
Le Roux, Petrus
Leadbeater, Thomas
Lennard, Christopher
Makhado, Azwianewi
Marco, Heather
Meadows, Michael
Meyer, Thomas
Meyers, Ann
Meyers, Paul
Midgley, Jeremy
Moloney, Coleen
Moodley, Deshendran
Muasya, Muthama
Murugan, Jeff
Naidoo, Kevin
Nassimbeni, Luigi
Nitschke, Geoff
O'Farrell, Patrick
O’Ryan, Colleen
Oliver, Clive
Parkington, John
Patel, Zarina
Peterson, Steve
Phakeng, Mamokgethi
Pillay, Deena
Rafudeen, Mohamed Suhail
Reed, Cecile
Ramutsindela, Maano
Rautenbach, Christo
Rodgers, Allen
Rohwer, Christian
Rouault, Mathieu
Russo, Francesco
Samaai, Toufiek
Sanchez-Ortega, Juana
Schauerte, Anneliese
Sealy, Judith
Shackleton, Sheona
Shannon, Lynne
Shock, Jonathan
Silal, Sheetal
Simmons, Rob
Singh, Vinayak
Skokos, Haris
Sloan, Alastair
Smith, Greg
Spottiswoode, Claire
Stynder, Deano
Suleman, Hussein
Taylor,  Andrew
Thomson, Robert
Underhill, Les
Van der Heyden, Kurt
Verboom, Tony
Vichi, Marcello
Visser, Vernon
Weigert, Heribert
Weltman, Amanda
West, Adam
Winter, Kevin
Wolski, Piotr
Woudt, Patrick
Wynberg, Rachel
Yacoob, Sahal
Ziervogel, Gina