Since starting as a lecturer in the department in 2002, he has presented 11 different undergraduate modules to electrical, electronic, computer, mechanical, chemical, and metallurgical engineering students from first to fourth year in classes ranging between 30 and 630 students. He holds BEng and MEng degrees in electrical engineering and a doctorate in electronic engineering in the field of bioengineering. He is registered as a professional engineer and is a member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. He serves as Deputy Function Head Undergraduate: Electrical Engineering, as the guardian lecturer for the final-year student class representatives, and as a member of the School of Engineering’s first-year curriculum design team. He is also a former head of residence of the Asterhof ladies’ residence.

Although functioning as an electrical engineer at the undergraduate level, his field of research is in bioengineering with a specific focus on auditory nerve fibre modelling within person-specific finite element models of the cochlea for cochlear implant users.

Dr B, as he is fondly known to his students, has won the 2020 EBIT Faculty House Award for the most humorous lecturer for his online lectures, the 2021 EBIT and UP Teaching and Learning Awards as part of a group project, and the 2024 EBIT Teaching and Learning Award. He is actively involved in society as a member of the executive committee of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Northern Conference of South Africa, Deputy Chairman of the church’s Pretoria Afrikaans District Committee, member of the Adventist World Radio Afrikaans Board, and former chairman of the Bronberg Children’s Choir Committee.