Chief Executive Officer | Econozone One (Pty) Limited
Port Elizabeth, South Africa & New YorK, USA | 2008 - present

Environment and Conservation

Chair | Eastern Cape Higher Education Association
Eastern Cape, South Africa | 2000 - 2004

Academia, Education and Training

Director | Board | Tertiary Education Network
South Africa | 2000 - 2005

Director | Port Elizabeth Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Port Elizabeth | 1997 - 2005

Rector and Vice-Chancellor | Port Elizabeth Technikon
South Africa | 1988 - 2005

Academia, Education and Training

Visiting Fellow | Cavendish Laboratory - Metal Physics Division | University of Cambridge
United Kingdom | 1975 - 1976

Academia, Education and Training

Professor | Department of Physics | University of Port Elizabeth
South Africa | 1974 - 2005

Academia, Education and Training

Senior Lecturer | Department of Physics | University of Port Elizabeth
South Africa | 1969 - 1974

Academia, Education and Training

Visiting Scientist | Department of Material Science | University Virginia
United States of America | 1968 - 1969

Academia, Education and Training

Research Fellow | Department of Physics | University Waterloo
Ontario, Canada | 1965 - 1968

Academia, Education and Training

Research Officer | National Physical Research Laboratory | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Pretoria, South Africa | 1961 - 1965

Academia, Education and Training

Emeritus Professor of Physics | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Academia, Education and Training

University of Cape Town

Completed 1960

Bachelor of Science

University of Cape Town

Completed 1961

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

University of Cape Town

Completed 1963

Master of Science

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Completed 1968

Doctor of Philosophy

Alumni of Honour | University of Waterloo. Ontario, Canada

For the Sake of Honour Award | Port Elizabeth Rotary Club

Citizen of the Year: Academia Winner | Port Elizabeth City Council/ Eastern Cape Herald

Communicator of the Year | PRISA ( Eastern Cape and Border)

Overseas Travel Grant | CSIR

Vice-Chancellor's Bursary | UPE

Comprehensive Support (Category B) | FRD (now the NRF)

Overseas Travel Grant | CSIR

Vice-Chancellor's Bursary | UPE

Merit Award | National Research Council of Canada, University Waterloo

Solid State Physics & Materials Science Group: SA Institute of Physics (SAIP)

Member & Past Vice-Chair, 1984 - 1988

Academy of Sciences of SA (ASSAf)

Founder Member, 1995 - present

SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns

Member, 1988 - present

Electron Microscopy Society of SA

Member & Past President, 1969 - present

SA Institute of Physics (SAIP)

Member, 1962 - present

Council for Natural Scientific Professions

Registerd Professional Scientist (Pr.Sci.Nat.), 1983 - present