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It was established on 1 April 1999 as an autonomous statutory body in accordance with the National Research Foundation Act. Dr Fulufhelo Nelwamondo has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Foundation of South Africa with effect from 1 April 2021. The NRF Board is chaired by Prof Mosa Moshabela. [1] [2]
The programme, launched in 2006 as a joint initiative between the NRF and the national Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), aims to attract and retain excellent researchers in South African public institutions. The research chairs are reserved for established researchers and are renewable for up to 15 years.
Nelwamondo is the chief executive officer of the National Research Foundation of South Africa. [4] Nelwamondo joined the Modelling and Digital Science unit (MDS) of the CSIR in 2008, and became acting director in 2014 and executive director in 2016; prior to 2008 he had been a principal researcher and a competence area manager for Information ...
As a National Facility of the NRF, SAIAB serves as a major scientific resource for knowledge and understanding the biodiversity and functioning of globally significant aquatic ecosystems. With both marine and freshwater biogeographical boundaries, southern Africa is ideally placed to monitor and document climate change.
The mass spectrometry unit was opened by South Africa's Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor in 2014. [1] In 2018 a conference was held to mark ten years of a collaboration programme with CERN. [2] The main plant near Cape Town houses a number of accelerators that are used for various research purposes.
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa is Africa's largest dedicated social science and humanities research agency and policy think tank. [1] It primarily conducts large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific projects for public-sector users, for non governmental organisations and international development agencies in support of development nationally, in the Southern ...
National Research Foundation (India) National Research Foundation (United Arab Emirates), a foundation to promote research activity in the United Arab Emirates; National Research Foundation (South Africa), the intermediary agency between the Government of South Africa and South Africa's research institutions; National Research Foundation of Korea
The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The facility's function is to conduct research in astronomy and astrophysics.