Our People
The Wits MIND Institute is a collective of 64 Wits Academics, from across all 5 of Wits’ Faculties, that push the frontiers of science in the areas of machine, human and animal intelligence, within the over-arching pillars of fundamental, applied and societal aspects of intelligence.
The Institute is governed by a Scientific Advisory Committee that meets twice a year, a Management Committee that meets monthly, and is administratively supported by a team of professional research management and administration support staff.
Our Research Fellows are selected through a competitive application process and are grouped below according to disciplinary cluster groupings:
- Engineering: Bevan Smith, Kayode Adetunji, Martin Bekker, Mitchell Cox
- Finance, Economics and Commerce: Marius Muller, Moinak Maiti, Yudhvir Seetharam
- Governance, Ethics, Policy and Law: Eleni Flack-Davison, Geci Karuri-Sebina, Laven Naidoo, Michele Van Eck, Nicolene Steyn
- Humanities & Social Sciences: Aline Ferreira-Correia, Christo Doherty, Iginio Gagliardone, Kate Cockcroft, Kealeboga Aiseng, Khondlo Mtshali, Lucienne Abrahams, Mmanape Hlungwane, Ntsibane Ntlatlapa, Oluwarotimi Randle, Renzo Filinich, Sahba Besharati, Stacy Hardy, Sumaya Laher, Victor de Andrade
- Health Sciences: Ayanda Ngwenya, Brendon Billings, Cornelius Ewuoso, Illke Malungo, Ismail Kalla, Joshua Davimes, Karine Scheuermaier, Karl-Gunter Technau, Paul Manger, Pradeep Kumar, Robert Breiman, Sylvester Omoruyi, Tanya Augustine
- Science: Benjamin Rosman, Branden Ingram, Bruce Bassett, Christine Steininger, David Rose, Devon Jarvis, Eloise van der Merwe, Farai Mlambo, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Hairong Bau, Helen Robertson, Isaac Nape, Jarrod Shipton, Jonathan Kariv, Julien Benoit, Laurent Bruxelles, Paidamwoyo Mhangara, Pravesh Ranchod, Rendani Mbuvha, Richard Klein, Ritesh Ajoodha, Steven James, Taariq Surtee, Victoria Williams
Interested in knowing more about our Fellows, take a look at this fun activity they took part in to highlight their areas of research interest here or review the various Cluster pages for more detail.