Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

Short Bio of MembersASSAf■ Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo is Professor and ExecutiveDirector: Institutional Advancement at the Universityof Pretoria; he has been Dean of Commerce at the sameUniversity.■ Daniel Visser is Professor, and has served as Head ofthe Department of Private Law and Dean of Law at theUniversity of Cape Town.■ Wilma Viviers is the Director of the School of Economics,Risk Management and International Trade in theFaculty of Economic and Management Sciences at theNorth-West University (Potchefstroom Campus).■ James Andrew Volmink is Professor of CommunityHealth in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Deputy Dean(Research) of the University of Stellenbosch and isDirector of the South African Cochrane Centre of theMedical Research Council and the was Professor ofPrimary Health Care at the University of Cape Town.■ Gerhard von Gruenewaldt is Research Advisor to theWits Foundation and a Consultant to the NRF. He wasVice-President of Foundation for Research Development.■ Hester H. Vorster is Professor and Research Director ofthe Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, atthe University of North-West.■ Anthony David Mortimer Walker is a ProfessorEmeritus (Physics) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Heis part time Director of Special Projects in the ResearchOffice and Honorary Research Associate in Physics at theUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal.■ Brian Warner is Distinguished Professor of NaturalPhilosophy at UCT. Previously he was Head of the Departmentof Astronomy at the same university.■ Mark Charles M. Wentzel is Professor with the WaterResearch Group in the Department of Civil Engineering atthe University of Cape Town.■ Patricia Ann Whitelock has a joint appointment withthe South African Astronomical Observatory and the Universityof Cape Town. She was Acting Director of SAAO.■ Anna-Lise Williamson is a Professor at the Departmentof Clinical Laboratory Service at the University of CapeTown.■ Francis Wilson is Professor Emeritus in Economics atUCT. He was for many years the Director of the SouthernAfrica Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU).■ Brenda Wingfield is a Professor in the Department ofGenetics at the University of Pretoria and ProgrammeLeader of the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree HealthBiotechnology.■ Michael Wingfield is Professor and Director Forestryand Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University ofPretoria. He is also the Director of the DST/NRF Centreof Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology and TreeProtection Co-operative Programme.■ M. P. Wissing is Professor, School for PsychosocialBehavioural Sciences at the University of North-West.■ David Randle Woods has been Vice-Chancellor ofRhodes University and was the Head of the Departmentof Microbiology and Director of the Microbial Geneticsand Industrial Microbiology Research Unit at the Universityof Cape Town.■ Hong-Kun Xu is senior Professor at the University ofKwaZulu-Natal. He has held visiting positions at theUniversity of Seville, Spain, the University of Newcastle,Australia, the University of Calabria, Italy, Pukyong NationalUniversity, Korea, and Tokyo Institute of Technology,Japan.■ Alphose Zingoni is Professor of Structural Engineeringand Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering ofthe University of Cape Town. He was Dean of the Facultyof Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe.Annual Report 2005/06113