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To meet its mandate of improving the quality of life of South Africans, the CSIR relies on its most important asset, its people. The CSIR’s multidisciplinary nature positions the organisation to help solve the increasingly complex problems of our time. This multidisciplinary science, engineering and technology base is made up of individuals who are highly specialised in their respective fields. They are geneticists, virologists, software developers, polymer chemists, applied mathematicians and industrial engineers, just to name a few.
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Thomalla’s area of interest lies in understanding the biological carbon pump through measurements of phytoplankton community structure and primary production, and interpreting these data in terms of their physical and biogeochemical control mechanisms.
Dr Davies’ research interests lie in biodiversity science, understanding ecological processes and management of impacts in social-ecological systems, such as invasive alien organisms.
Naidoo’s current research includes assessing and developing adaptation strategies for plantation and natural forests in southern Africa to deal with projected changes in climate.
Ombinda-Lemboumba’s research focuses on developing optical technologies to image and manipulate biological samples. These technologies include building a laser beam optical trapping/sorting system which will allow noise-free single-cell analysis via Raman Spectroscopy to interrogate the molecular content of different cytoplasmic regions of live HIV-1 infected cells to provide new data on HIV-1 pathogenesis for applications in point-of-care diagnostics.