Associate Professor | Thermodynamic modelling, thermophysical property measurement & machine learning

Short Bio

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
2025 – Present
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stellenbosch University
Previously Lecturer (2018 – 2022) and Senior Lecturer (2022 – 2025)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Host: Prof. Andre Burger
Development of fundamental thermodynamic models for industrial application
2017 – 2018

PhD Chem Eng
Improvement of the thermodynamic description of polar molecules and their mixtures in the SAFT framework
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stellenbosch University
Supervisors: Prof. Andre Burger & Prof. Cara Schwarz
2014 – 2016

MEng (Research)
Assessment of the capabilities of two polar sPC-SAFT terms through application to measured ketone-alkane phase equilibria data
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stellenbosch University
Supervisors: Prof. Andre Burger & Prof. Cara Schwarz
2012 – 2013

BSc Eng (Chemical)
School of Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
2008 – 2011

Research Interests

Thermodynamic modelling
Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (SAFT)
Thermophysical property measurement (phase equilibrium, spectroscopy)
Machine learning (with special application to chemical thermodynamics)

Selected Publications

A list of his published works can be found on his Google Scholar profile.