Academic staff

Professor Charles De Koning
Position: HEAD OF SCHOOL
Email: Charles.DeKoning@wits.ac.za
Research: Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry, Organic Synthesis
Research Interests: Organic synthesis, aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds, transition metal mediated synthesis, biorenewables

Professor Dave Billing
Position: PROFESSOR
Email: Dave.Billing@wits.ac.za
Research: Energy and Functional Materials
Research Interests: XRD, powder diffraction, Energy Materials, Crystallography, Solid State Chemistry, Materials Science

Professor Moira Bode
Position: PROFESSOR
Email: Moira.Bode@wits.ac.za
Research: Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry
Research Interests: organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, biocatalysis, antiviral

Professor Dean Brady
Position: PROFESSOR
Email: Dean.Brady@wits.ac.za
Research: Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry
Research Interests: Biocatalysis

Professor Luke Chimuka
Position: PROFESSOR
Email: Luke.Chimuka@wits.ac.za
Research: Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Professor Neil Coville
Position: EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Email: Neil.Coville@wits.ac.za
Research: Catalysis and Nanocarbons

Professor Ewa Cukrowska
Position: EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Email: Ewa.Cukrowska@wits.ac.za
Research: Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Professor Marc Humphries
Position: PROFESSOR
Email: Marc.Humphries@wits.ac.za
Research: Environmental Geochemistry
Research Interests: Geochemistry, Wetlands, Environmental change, Ecotoxicology

Professor Demetrius Levendis
Position: EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Email: Demetrius.Levendis@wits.ac.za
Research: Structural Chemistry and Crystallography

Professor Andreas Lemmerer
Position: PROFESSOR
Email: Andreas.Lemmerer@wits.ac.za
Research: Structural Chemistry and Crystallography

Professor Helder Marques
Position: EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Email: Helder.Marques@wits.ac.za
Research: Bioinorganic and Coordination Chemistry

Professor Joseph Michael
Position: EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Email: Joseph.Michael@wits.ac.za
Research: Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry, Organic Synthesis

Professor Nosipho Moloto
Position: SARChi CHAIR
Email: Nosipho.Moloto@wits.ac.za
Research: Nanomaterials

Professor Kenneth Ozoemena
Position: RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Email: kenneth.ozoemena@wits.ac.za
Research: Electrochemistry
Research Interests: Materials Electrochemistry; Energy Storage; Energy Conversion; Electrochemical Sensors

Professor Hlanganani Tutu
Position: PROFESSOR
Email: Hlanganani.Tutu@wits.ac.za
Research: Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Associate Professor Caren Billing
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email: Caren.Billing@wits.ac.za
Research: Energy and Functional Materials
Research Interests: Electrochemistry, Complex formation, Analytical chemistry compounds

Associate Professor Manuel Fernandes
Position: READER
Email: Manuel.Fernandes@wits.ac.za
Research: Structural Chemistry and Crystallography

Associate Professor Izak Kotze
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email: Izak.Kotze@wits.ac.za
Research: Bioinorganic and Coordination Chemistry

Associate Professor Maya Makatini
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email: maya.makatini@wits.ac.za
Research: Peptide Chemistry

Associate Professor Heidi Richards
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email: heidi.richards@wits.ac.za
Research: Environmental Analytical Chemistry

Associate Professor Amanda Rousseau
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email: Amanda.Rousseau@wits.ac.za
Research: Medicinal Chemistry

Associate Professor Andrew Swarts
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email: andrew.swarts@wits.ac.za
Research: Organometallic Chemistry
Research Interests: Inorganic chemistry - Synthesis, Organometallic chemistry, Kinetics/reaction mechanisms, Catalysis

Doctor Dean Barrett
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: dean.barrett1@wits.ac.za
Research: Energy and Functional Materials

Doctor Morad El-Hendawy
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: morad.el-hendawy@wits.ac.za
Research: Energy and Functional Materials

Doctor Anzel Falch
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: anzel.falch@wits.ac.za
Research: Energy and Functional Materials

Doctor Roy Forbes
Position: SENIOR RESEARCHER
Email: Roy.Forbes@wits.ac.za
Research: Energy and Functional Materials

Doctor Sadhna Mathura
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: Sadhna.Mathura@wits.ac.za
Research: Bioinorganic and Coordination Chemistry

Doctor Pierre Mubiayi
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: Kalenga.Mubiayi@wits.ac.za
Research: Nanomaterials

Doctor Kennedy Ngwira
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: Kennedy.Ngwira@wits.ac.za
Research: Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry, Organic Synthesis

Doctor Letitia Pillay
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: letitia.pillay@wits.ac.za
Research: Environmental Geochemistry

Doctor Juanita Van Wyk
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
Email: Juanita.VanWyk@wits.ac.za
Research: Coordination Chemistry

Doctor Shaeen Chetty
Position: LECTURER - Academic Leader of First Year 
Email: shaeen.chetty1@wits.ac.za
Research: Environmental Geochemistry
Research Interests: : Chemical education, metal source apportionment, pollution transport and accumulation

Dr Siziwe Gqoba
Position: LECTURER
Email: Siziwe.Gqoba@wits.ac.za

Doctor Mudzuli Maphupha
Position: LECTURER
Email: mudzuli.maphupha@wits.ac.za
Research: Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry

Doctor Grace Ngubeni
Position: LECTURER
Email: grace.ngubeni1@wits.ac.za
Research: Nanomaterials
Research Interests: Nanomaterials, quaternary semiconductors, counter electrodes, DSSCs, phthalocyanines

Doctor Monika Nowakowska
Position: LECTURER
Email: Monika.Nowakowska@wits.ac.za
Research: Bioinorganic and Coordination Chemistry

Doctor Memory Zimuwandeyi
Position: LECTURER
Email: Memory.Zimuwandeyi@wits.ac.za
Research: Biocatalysis and Green Chemistry