| Albertyn, Cathi | School of Law | CLM | Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice | 
| Allais, Stephanie | School of Education | Humanities | Chair in Post-School Education and Training | 
| Choonara, Yahya | School of Therapeutic Sciences | Health Sciences | Pharmaceutical Biomaterials & Polymer-Engineered Drug Delivery Technologies | 
| Dean, Roger | School of Physics | Science | Radio Astronomy | 
| Gagliardone, Iginio | School of Language, Literature and Media | Humanities | Digital Humanities | 
| Griffiths, Francis | School of Public Health | Health Sciences | Health Policy and Systems | 
| Hamilton, Lawrence | School of Social Science | Humanities | Political Theory | 
| Jejjala, Vishnu | School of Physics | Science | Theoretical Particle Cosmology | 
| Landau, Loren | African Centre for Migration & Society | Humanities | Mobility and the Politics of Difference | 
| Makalela, Leketi 
 | School of Education | Humanities | Chair in Advancing African Languages for Social Inclusion and Success in Higher Education | 
| Moletsane, Relebohile | School of Social Sciences | Humanities | Gender Based Violence and Femicide | 
| Moloto, Nosipho | School of Chemistry | Science | Research Chair in Energy Materials | 
| Moore, Penny | Department of Virology in School of Pathology | Health Sciences | Virus-host dynamics for public health | 
| Ndlovu, Selo | School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering | Engineering and the Built Environment | Hydrometallurgy: Innovation and Sustainability | 
| Ozoemena, Kenneth | School of Chemistry | Science | Materials Electrochemistry & Energy technologies (MEET) | 
| Ramsay, Michel | Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience | Health Sciences | Bioinformatics of African Populations | 
| Rispel Laetitia | School of Public Health | Health Sciences | Public Health | 
| Falkof, Nicki | School of Social Sciences | Humanities | Critical Diversity Studies | 
| Tiemessen, Caroline | School of Pathology | Health Sciences | HIV Vaccine Translational Research | 
| Venter, Marietjie | IDORI | Health Sciences | Surveillance and vaccines for Emerging and re-emerging viral threats |