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Professor Sunil Maharaj was appointed as the Vice-Principal: Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Education, effective 1 August 2022, for five years.

Prof Maharaj has more than 35 years’ experience in industry as a microwave and radio-frequency design engineer, academic and consultant. He has extensive experience as an established scholar with international standing and commendable scholarly work.

He was appointed a full professor at UP in 2014, has held several leadership roles including Head of Department, and has served two full terms as the Dean of EBIT, which is the largest faculty at UP and the largest Engineering faculty in southern Africa.

He holds a SENTECH Chair in Broadband Wireless Multimedia.

Professor Ntebogeng Sharon MokgalakaFleischmann was appointed as the Director: Mamelodi Campus with effect from 1 July 2022.

She has worked in the higher education sector in different capacities for the past 24 years and has held several management roles in this sector.

She holds a C2 NRF rating and was one of the founding members of the Synchrotron Radiation Research Roadmap Implementation Committee and the South African Chairperson for the South Africa Swedish University Forum Academic Advisory Committee for Climate Change, Natural Resources and Sustainability from 2019 to 2021.

Prof Mokgalaka-Fleischmann is also council member of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP) and chairs the Qualifications Assessment subcommittee of SACNASP.

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