Thokozani Majozi

Thokozani Majozi is a full professor in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Wits University, where he also holds an NRF/DST Chair in Sustainable Process Engineering. Prior to joining Wits in 2013, he was a professor at the University of Pretoria, where he spent nearly 10 years, and an associate professor in computer science at the University of Pannonia in Hungary from 2005 to 2009. A chemical engineer by profession, Majozi was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the United Kingdom (UK) where he completed his PhD in Process Integration in 2002. He is a Fellow for the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf), Academy of Engineering of SA, Water Institute of Southern Africa and African Academy of Sciences (AAS). He spent the early years of his career in the industrial sector, working for Unilever, Dow AgroSciences and Sasol Technology. He has received numerous awards for his research including the Zdenek Burianec Memorial Award (Italy, 2005). He is thrice a recipient of the National Science and Technology Forum Award (2006, 2011 and 2016) and twice a recipient of the National Research Foundation President’s Award (2007 and 2008). In 2009, he won the prestigious S2A3 British Association Medal (Silver) and in 2010 was awarded the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers Bill Neal-May Gold Medal. He also received the AU-TWAS Award in Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (2012) and ORSSA Category III Award. Majozi is author and co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, including a book entitled Batch Chemical Process Integration published by Springer in January 2010, a book entitled Synthesis, Design and Resources Optimization, published by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis in 2015 and a book entitled Understanding Batch Chemical Processes, also published by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis in 2017.
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