Sabbaticals

The Center supports and fosters international collaborations. Visiting scientists who have participated in sabbaticals at CAER include:

• Dr. Linda Jewell
  Linda Jewell, who previously worked at the CAER in the 1990's, was on sabbatical from Wits for three months at the CAER (Summer 2004) while she worked on the Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene. She recently became a Senior Lecturer in the School of Process and Materials Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa. There she is involved in contract research and income generation, which included setting up and running training programs for industry which ranged from the flocculation of paint waste water to reactor design and scale-up.

• Dr. Ajay Dalai
  Dr. Ajay Dalai was a visiting scientist from 2003-2004. He has returned to the University of Saskatchewan, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. While here, he worked in the Clean Fuels and Chemicals Group. Dr. Dalai received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 1990.

• Dr. Mark Dry
  Dr. Dry of the University of Capetown, South Africa and formerly of SASOL has had three sabbaticals at CAER (most recently in 2003). Each time he worked within the Clean Fuels and Chemicals Group.

• Dr. David Devillers
  Dr. David Devillers from Sasol Technology http://www.sasol.com/ in South Africa joined the Catalysis Group, in Fall 2003, for three months to study kinetic isotopes.

• Dr. Matthys Janse van Vuuren
  Dr. Matthys Janse van Vuuren, Sasol Technology http://www.sasol.com/ (Sasolburg, South Africa) was at the CAER for three months in 2003, working on Fischer-Tropsch Catalysis.

• Mr. Hans Slaghuis
  Mr. Slaghuis is Coal Products Research Manager, Sasol Technology http://www.sasol.com/ (Sasolburg, South Africa). He was a visiting researcher in the Carbon Materials Group from August 26th - Sept 6th, 2002. The purpose of the visit was to learn about CAER's research capabilities, and to begin developing research topics for future collaborations.

• Dr. Michael McCarthy
  Dr. McCarthy was at the CAER for three weeks during June, 2002 as a visiting scientist from the University of Dundee http://www.dundee.ac.uk/ Concrete Technology Unit within the Dept. of Civil Engineering. His expertise in concrete was a significant asset for the ECT Group.

• Dr. Robert Bradley and Dr. Brian McEnaney
  The CAER hosted two distinguished researchers from the United Kingdom in 2002. Bob Bradley (Robert Gordon University http://www.rgu.ac.uk/, Aberdeen, Scotland) and Brian McEnaney University of Bath http://www.bath.ac.uk/, Bath, England) assisted CAER with strategy planning in the area of carbon materials.

• Mr. Tsevi Minster
  Mr. Minster joined the CAER as a Visiting Scientist for four months in 2000. Minster was from the Geological Survey of Israel in Jerusalem, Israel. This was his second time as a visiting scientist at the CAER.