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Research and Innovation Entities

Explore the diverse landscape of our research and innovation units spanning across our five faculties. Our multidisciplinary research seamlessly integrates expertise from various corners of the University. Browse our research groups, centres, and institutes to uncover the exciting discoveries we are making and the significant impact we are creating.

Engineering and the Built Environment

Centre for Combustion Engineering
Centre for High Voltage Engineering
Centre for Urbanism & Built Environment Studies
Extended Urbanisation
Green Engineering and Industrial Ecology
Mine Planning and Optimisation Research Group
Mineral Resources Governance Research Group
National Aerospace Centre
Next Frontiers in Advanced Materials Lab
Property and Real Estate Sustainability Studies Research Group
Wits Institute for Data Science
Wits Mining Research Institute

African Research Centre for Ore System Science
ARUA CoE Materials for Energy and Nano-technology
Centre for Applicable Analysis & Number Theory Research
Centre in Water Research and Development
DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis
DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Economic Geology Research Institute
Evolutionary Studies Institute
Genus
Global Change Institute
Institute for Collider Particle Physics
Mandelstam Institute for Theoretical Physics
Materials Physics Research Institute
Molecular Sciences Institute
Protein Structure-Function Research
Rock Art Research Institute
South African Quantum Technology Initiative
Sterkfontein Caves Centre
Wits Q- Southern African Quantum Technology Initiative
Wits Centre for Astrophysics
Wits Water

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