August 2024 - South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

Benjamin Hugo – Software Developer

Benjamin Hugo is a Software Developer with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in Cape Town South Africa. After joining SARAO in 2016 he was involved in telescope commissioning and operations of the 64-dish MeerKAT radio interferometer. His software interests include developing tooling in radio imaging, calibration, simulations, and pipelining supporting science operations. His […]

Dr Romeo Gamatham – Research Scientist: Time and Frequency Systems, SARAO

Dr R. R. G. Gamatham completed his undergraduate at the University of Namibia (UNAM) majoring in pure/applied Mathematics and Physics. He received his Masters degree in Physics (cum laude) from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU). In 2013 he received his PhD in Physics from NMMU. His doctoral research work conducted at the Centre of […]

Dr Nadeem Oozeer – Data Scientist

Dr. Nadeem Oozeer is currently a data scientist with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, leading for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). He completed his PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Mauritius in 2008 and joined a postdoc with the SKA Africa project. Dr. Nadeem Oozeer started as a junior operations and commissioning scientist […]

Dr Lindsay Magnus, SKA-Mid Telescope Director

He graduated from Rhodes University majoring in Physics with Electronics and Maths, and completed his Honours year in Telecommunications before earning a Master’s degree in Physics. After lecturing at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Border Technikon (now Walter Sisulu University), East London, he took up a position as a Research Physicist at the Hermanus […]