Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

ASSAfShort Bio of Members■ Renfrew Christie is Dean of Research, University ofWestern Cape. He was Academic Planning Officer UCTand is the Chairperson UWC Community Law Centre.■ Paul Cilliers is Professor of Philosophy at the Universityof Stellenbosch. He has held research fellowships at thePhillips University of Marburg, the Free University ofAmsterdam and the Institute for the Study of Coherenceand Emergence (ISCE) in Boston.■ Walter T. Claassen is Professor and Vice-Rector forResearch at the University of Stellenbosch.■ Peter Eiddon Cleaton-Jones is Head of the DentalResearch Institute, University of the Witwatersrand (aJoint MRC / Wits research unit.■ Eugene Cloete is Professor and Head of the MicrobiologyDepartment, and Chairperson of the School ofBiological Sciences at the University of Pretoria.■ Maureen Coetzee is head of the Rector Control ReferenceUnit of the National Institute for CommunicableDiseases in Johannesburg and research Professor at theSchool of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand.■ John Darrell Comins is Director of the DST/NRF Centreof Excellence in Strong Materials, Professor of Solid StatePhysics, Chairman of the Materials Physics ResearchInstitute, and Director of the Raman and LuminescenceLaboratory at the University of the Witwatersrand.■ Neville Raymond Comins is Chief Executive Officer ofThe Innovation Hub Management Company. Previously,he was the Director of the Division of Materials Scienceand Technology and subsequently Director of IntegratedProjects at the CSIR.■ Simon H. Connell is Professor and Director: AcceleratorLaboratory, Schonland Research Centre for Nuclear Sciences,at the University of the Witwatersrand.■ Hoosen Coovadia is a paediatrician and expert inperinatal HIV transmission. He was the Head of theDepartment of Paediatrics at the then University of Natal.He now holds the Victor Daitz Chair for HIV/AIDS researchat the University of Kwazulu Natal.■ Anna Coutsoudis is Professor in the Department ofPaediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R. Mandela Schoolof Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Chairof iThemba Lethu an HIV/AIDS organization caring forchildren.■ Richard Mark Cowling is Professor of Botany at theNelson Mandela Metropolitan University and HonoraryProfessor in Botany at the University of Cape Town. Hehas been President of the International Society of MediterraneanEcologists.■ Robin Michael Crewe is Vice Principal of the Universityof Pretoria. He was Director of Communication BiologyResearch Group of the University of the Witwatersrandand Dean of Science Faculties at both the Universitiesof the Witwatersrand and Pretoria. He is currently thePresident of the Academy of Science of South Africa.■ Felix Dapare Dakora is Professor and Dean of Researchat the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.Previously, he was Associate Professor of Botany at theUniversity of Cape Town.■ Dennis Martin Davis sits as Judge on the Cape HighCourt, and is also a Competition Appeal Court Judge.■ Santi Daya is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences atRhodes University.■ Christiaan Rudolph de Beer is Vice-Principal of theUniversity of Pretoria. He has held numerous academicand management positions at the Potchefstroom Universityfor Christian Higher Education (now North WestUniversity) and the University of Pretoria.■ O C de Jager is at the Unit for Space Physics, North-WestUniversity■ Vivian Anne de Klerk is Professor and Head of the Departmentof English Language and Linguistics at RhodesUniversity. She served as President of the LinguisticsSociety of Southern Africa.■ Cheryl de la Rey is Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellorfor Research and Innovation of the University of Cape102Promoting Excellence in Science for Society