Professor Muaaz Bhamjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria. His research spans computational and experimental fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, high-performance computing, renewable energy, and data-driven and deep learning approaches to climate modelling. His current work focuses on machine learning and hybrid quantum computing approaches to fluid dynamics, high energy physics, and dynamical systems.

He serves as the University of Pretoria’s ATLAS CERN Institutional Representative and Vice-President of the South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (SAAM) and the South African National Committee for IUTAM.

He has published over 200 accredited papers, with a Scopus h-index of 25 and a Google Scholar h-index of 56. Professor Bhamjee is a registered Professional Engineer with ECSA and a full member of SAIMechE. His prior experience includes roles at IBM Research – Africa, the University of Johannesburg, and Hatch Africa.