Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

Short Bio of MembersASSAfMachines and Power Systems, Department Head of ElectricalEngineering and for some periods also the Dean ofEngineering at the University of Natal.■ Susan Thérése Largier Harrison is Professor in theDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University ofCape Town and Director of the Bioprocess EngineeringResearch Unit. .■ Rashid Hassan is Director of the Centre for EnvironmentalEconomics and Policy in Africa, University of Pretoria.■ Manfred Armin Hellberg is Emeritus Professor of Physicsand Senior Researcher Associate at the University ofKwaZulu-Natal. He was Professor and Head of Department,Dean of Science and was twice Pro Vice-Chancellorat the University of KwaZulu-Natal.■ Fred Thomas Hendricks is Professor of Sociology atRhodes University.■ Diane Hildebrandt is the Unilever Professor of ChemicalEngineering at the University of Witwatersrand.■ Michael Johann Richard Hoch is an Honorary ResearchFellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, andVisiting Research Scientist at the National High MagneticField Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL, USA. He was City of JohannesburgProfessor of Physics and Head of the PhysicsDepartment at the University of the Witwatersrand.■ Jan-Hendrik Servaas Hofmeyr is Professor in theDepartment of Biochemistry at the University of Stellenbosch.He currently chairs the International Study Groupfor Systems Biology.■ Catherine A. Odora Hoppers was a Professor atthe University of Pretoria, specializing in indigenousknowledge.■ Henk Huismans is Professor and Head of the Departmentof Virology, and Director of the Molecular Biology ofOrbiviruses Research Group, at the University of Pretoria.■ Brian Huntley is Chief Executive Officer of the SouthAfrican National Biodiversity Institute and Chairs theHarold Pearson in Botany, University of Cape Town. Hecoordinated the Council for Scientific and IndustrialResearch’s Cooperative Scientific Programmes.■ Gregory Dudley Hussey is Professor and Interim Directorof the Institute of Infectious Diseases and MolecularMedicine at the University of Cape Town. Previously, hewas Head of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit in theSchool of Child and Adolescent Health at UCT.■ David Harris Jacobson is a UK Chartered Engineer. Hewas a Professor at the Department of Computational andApplied Mathematics University of the Witwatersrand,Associate Professor, Harvard University and he has beenan Honorary (Adjunct) Professor at the University of theWitwatersrand.■ Wilmot James is Executive Director of the AfricaGenome Education Institute, and a Board member of theFord Foundation. He was previously Dean of the Facultyof Humanities and Professor of Sociology at UCT, andDirector of IDASA.■ Jonathan David Jansen is Professor of CurriculumStudies and Dean of the Faculty of Education at theUniversity of Pretoria. He has recently been appointedas the Administrator of the Durban University ofTechnology.■ Mohamed S. Jeenah is the Director of the InnovationsNetwork at the University of Pretoria.■ Trefor Jenkins is Professor Emeritus and HonoraryProfessorial Research Fellow, Division of Human Genetics,School of Pathology, National Health Laboratory Serviceat the University of the Witwatersrand. He was Professorand Head, Department of Human Genetics and Directorat the University of the Witwatersrand.■ Colin Thomas Johnson is Vice-Principal and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University. He was President andCEO of the Agricultural Research Council. He has beenProfessor of Botany and Dean of the Faculty of NaturalScience at the University of the Western Cape.■ Eugene Llewellyn Julies is Executive Director of WarrodomsConsulting, and Chief Technical advisor to theAnnual Report 2005/06105