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Date: 
Monday, November 19, 2018 - 00:00

CSIR statistician Paul Mokilane won the Best Track Paper Award at the 2018 First African International Conference for Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, held in Pretoria, recently. Paul's paper titled: Long-term electricity demand forecasting using a generalised additive mixed quantile averaging (GAMMQV) model forms part of his PhD research and was presented in the Energy Track of the conference.

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Friday, June 19, 2020 - 00:00

Maintaining a healthy and safe organisation is a priority for the leadership. For us to attain zero harm, zero disabling injuries and zero fatalities, we need to continue to cultivate a culture of health and safety within the organisation. The CSIR has created a Safety and Health video for staff, contractors and visitors. Click here to watch the video

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Date: 
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 - 00:00 to Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 00:00

The CSIR is looking for partners to license and co-finance the commercialisation of polymer formulations that offer great improvements and diversity in plastic packaging applications. EoI may be submitted by compounders to produce and sell the formulations, or by converters to incorporate the technology in films or by agents who will develop new products.

Closing date for applications is 21 September 2021 at 16:30

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Research group leader for biophotonics

Expertise: Biophotonics; Laser physics; Medical biochemistry; Molecular biology; Virology, Biochemistry

| Scientific Infrastructure

The Biosafety level three (BSL-3) laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility which enables scientists to conduct research and proof-of-concept studies in developing new diagnostics or therapeutics i

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Date: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 15:30

Meet Vuyo Ndayi  

Ndayi is a Capetonian who grew up near the ocean and Cape Town harbour. He combined his love for his environment and for all things engineering to first train as a marine instrumentation technologist, and to now work as a metocean and marine instrumentation engineer for the CSIR Coastal Engineering and Ports Infrastructure group in Stellenbosch.  

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Date: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 14:00

Exciting projects are always in the pipeline at the CSIR’s Coastal Engineering and Port Infrastructure Model Hall in Stellenbosch. The facility, which boasts the title of being the largest physical hydraulic modelling facility in the southern hemisphere, is home to Rosco Platen and his colleagues. Their primary task is to construct two and three-dimensional physical scale models on behalf of clients, enabling a comprehensive understanding of how dynamic ocean waves impact critical infrastructure.   

| Media Release
Date: 
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 00:00

Transport infrastructure engineer, Dr James Maina of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the prestigious JD Roberts Award.

| Media Release
Date: 
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 00:00

Every second year since 2006, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) dedicates two days to its 'Science real and relevant' conference to share research progress, breakthroughs and impact in an open forum.

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Date: 
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 00:00

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced today that a cooperation agreement has been signed with Phytopharm, a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical development and functional food company, for further development and commercialisation of Hoodia gordonii for the managemen