Postgraduate Physics students

Master's students
PhD students

Master's students
		Helga Danga Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-10 Research Area: Electronic Materials & Thin Films Research Project: Fabrication and characterisation of thin film solar cells
		Jeaneth Kabini Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-61 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Project: The solid-state interaction of Palladium on 6H-SiC
		Eva Khoza Office: Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics
		Phathutshedzo Murovhi Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-35 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Project: Low temperature properties of HTR fuel graphite composite
		Mxolisi Mukhawana Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-58 Research Area: Nuclear Materials
		Lucas Ndala Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-61 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Reasearch Project: Diffusion of Barium into glassy carbon
		Alexander Paradzah Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-6 Research Area: Electronic Materials & Thin Films Research Project: Analysis and characterisation of defects in 4H-SiC
		Thabsile Thabethe Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-65 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Project: Diffusion of Xenon in 6H-SiC
		Louwrens van Schalkwyk Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-6 Research Area: Electronic Materials & Thin Films Research Project: Tuneable AlGaN-based solar-blind UV Schottky photodiodes Community Engagement: UP with SCIENCE Higher Education Research & Innovation: Mentorship programme - Mentor
Doctoral students
		Zaki Abdalla Office: 5-58, Natural Sciences 1 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Research topic: Supervisor: Thulani Hlatswayo Co-supervisor: Johan Malherbe
		Khaleed Abubakar Abubakar Office: 4-29, Natural Sciences 1 Research Area: Carbon Based Nano Materials Research topic: Synthesis and chracterization of metal oxide/hydroxide carbon based materials for supercapacitor and gas sensing applications. Supervisor: Ncholu Manyala
		AbdulGaffar Adurrazaq Office: 5-66, Natural Sciences 1 Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films Research topic: E center defects in silicon by the means of density functional theory. Supervisor: Walter Meyer
		Mohammed Ahmed Office: 5-61, Natural Sciences 1 Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films Research topic: Supervisor: Dr. Jackie Nel Co-supervisor: Prof. Walter Meyer
		Mustafa Ahmed Office: 5-61, Natural Sciences 1 Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films Research topic: Supervisors: Dr. Jackie Ne and Prof. Walter Meyerl
		Hesham Abdelbagi Ali Office: Natural Sciences 1 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Group
		Bilal Alawad Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-58 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Supervisor: Prof. Johan Malherbe
		Richard Andrew Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-64 Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics
		Vonani Baloyi Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-66 Research Area: Physics Education Research Project: Correlation between students' understandings of nature of science and their academic performance.
		Abdulhakeem Bello Office: Natural Sciences I, 4-12 Research Area: Carbon Technology and Materials Research Group Research Project: Graphene application in supercapacitors
		Sergio Coelho Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-4 Research Area: Electronic Materials & Thin Films Research Project: Metal contacts on Ge
		Mopeli Fabiane Office: Natural Sciences I, 4-20 Research Area: Carbon Technology and Materials Research Group Research Project: Radiation damage of graphene
		Emmanuel Igumbor Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-64 Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Physics Research Project: Modelling of Defects in Semiconductors
		Mahjoub Y. A. Ismail Office: Natural Sciences 1, 5-61 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Project:
		Charl Jafta Office: CSIR Research Area: Carbon Technology and Materials Research Group Research Project: Interfacial electron transfer properties of layered and spinel-like manganese oxide based films as electrochemical energy storage systems
		Johan Janse van Rensburg Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-2 Research Project: Radiation induced defects in GaN, ZnO and Ge Research Area: Electronic Materials & Thin Films Community Engagement: UP with SCIENCE
		Innocent Audu Joseph Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-61 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Supervisor: Prof. J.B. Malherbe
		Joseph Kuhudzai Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-46 Research Area: Nuclear Materials
		Dolly Langa Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-61 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Project: Diffusion of Ag, Cs, and Sr in glassy carbon
		Kelebogile Maabong Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-10 Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films Research Project:
		Edwin Mapasha Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-64 Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics
		Gilbert Mashapa Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-64 Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics
		Abdulmajid A. M. Mirghni Office: Natural Sciences 1, 4-29 Research Area: Carbon Based Nano Materials Research Group
		Kinnock Munthali Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-58 Research Area: Nuclear Materials
		Yannick Mvondo-She Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-61 Research Area: Theoretical High Energy Physics Research Project: Logarithmic CFT and Topologically Massive Gravity
		Benard Samwel Mwankemwa Office: Research Area: Solar Energy Research Supervisors: Prof. M. Diale, Prof. J. Nel Research Project: Synthesis, characterization and application of ZnO nanorods in organic solar cells. Fabrications of organic solar cell and characterization. [email protected]
		Phuti Ngoepe Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-6 Research Area: Electronic Materials & Thin Films
		Prime Niyongabo Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-62
		Eric Njoroge Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-58 Research Area: Nuclear Materials
		Justine Sageka Nyarige Office: Research Area: Solar Energy Research Supervisors: Prof. M. Diale and Prof. T. Krüger Research project: Ultrafast spectroscopic studies of hematite and L-arginine on hematite nanostructures synthesized by spray pyrolysis for photoelectrochemical water splitting [email protected]
		Kingsley Obodo Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-64 Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics Research Project: Implementation of LDA+U on strongly correlated systems
		Prince Ogunbade Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-64 Research Area: Quantum Few-Body Theory
		Ezekiel Omotoso Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-10 Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films Research Project: Formation and Evolution of Radiation Induced Defects in Silicon Carbide
		Cecil Ouma Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-61 Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Solid State physics Research Project: Theoretical study of low temperature radiation induced defects in semiconductors
		Lesolle Sebitla Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-61 Research Area: Nuclear Materials Research Project: Radionuclide release from irradiated glassy carbon
		Shandirai Malven Tunhuma Office: Natural Sciences I Research Area: Electronic Materials and Thin Films Research Project: Defects for quantum computation [email protected]
		Paul Vaandrager Office: Natural Sciences I, 5-66 Research Area: Quantum Few-Body Theory Project Title: Application of the Jost-matrix theory in the analysis of some nuclear systems Project Description: Extraction of the resonance parameters from experimental cross sections of elastic and inelastic scattering of nucleons from light nuclei, such as H2, He3, He4, etc

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