Research Centers and Institutes at the University of Johannesburg
Source: https://www.uj.ac.za/research-at-uj/uj-research-centres-and-institutes/
UJ Research Centres and Institutes
UJ Research Centres and Institutes
The University hosts Research Centres and Institutes in all Faculties.
These entities are tasked with strengthening institutional, regional and national priorities, including the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Research Centres are internally funded through the University Strategic Funding Initiative.
Quick Links to Faculties
Art, Design and Architecture (FADA)\ Business and Economics (CBE)\ Education (FE)\ Engineering and the Built Environment (FEBE)\ Health Sciences (FHS)\ Humanities (FH)\ Law (FL)\ Science (FS)
Flagship Institutes\ Intelligent Systems (IIS)\ Inter-Faculty Centres and Institutes\ Johannesburg Business School (JBS)\ Strategic Initiatives and Administration
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA)
Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD)
Prof Leora Farber-Blackbeard
Email: leoraf@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
College of Business and Economics (CBE)
Centre for Applied Data Science
Vacant
Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED)
Prof Reena das Nair
Email: reenadn@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Model-Based Planning
Vacant
Centre for Public Management and Governance
Prof Vain Jarbandhan
Email: vainj@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Wellbeing, AI and Social Impact
Prof Talita Greyling
Email: talitag@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Work Performance
Vacant
Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (Africa)
Prof Noleen Pisa
Email:noleenp@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC)
Ms Nomsa Phindile Nkosi
Email: phindilen@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Technopreneurship Centre
Mr Koena (Ronny) Mabokela
Email: rmabokela@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Faculty of Education (FE)
Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies
Prof Emnet Woldegiorgis (Acting)
Email: emnetw@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (CALTSTEAM)
Prof Umesh Ramnarain
Email: uramnarain@uj.ac.za\ Learn more
Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT)
Prof June Bam-Hutchison
Email: juneb@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Neurodiversity @ UJ (CN@UJ)
Prof Boitumelo Diale
Email: tumid@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (FEBE)
Atomic Layer Deposition Research Centre (ALDRC)
Prof Tien-Chien Jen
Email: tjen@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment
Prof Innocent Musonda
Email: imusonda@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Collaborative Digital Networks
Vacant
Centre for Cyber Physical Food Energy and Water Systems (CCP-FEWS)
Prof Nnamdi Nwulu
Email: nnwulu@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Ecological Intelligence (CEI)
Prof Michael Rudolph
Centre for Nanoengineering and Advanced Materials (CNAM)
Prof Peter Olubambi
Email: polubambi@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Smart Information and Communication Systems (CSICS)
Prof Ghanshyam Singh
Email: ghanshyams@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Sustainable Material and Construction Technologies (SMaCT)
Prof Jeffrey Mahachi
Email: jmahachi@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Construction Industry Development Board Centre of Excellence
Prof Clinton Aigbavboa
Email: calgbavboa@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Mineral Processing and Technology Research Centre
Prof Antoine Mulaba-Bafubiandi
Email: amulaba@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Nuclear Research Centre
Prof Simon Connell
Email: shconnell@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre
Prof Clinton Aigbavboa
Email: calgbavboa@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Research Centre (jointly with Nanjing Tech University in China)
Prof Tien-Chien Jen
Email: tjen@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS)
Laser Research Centre
Prof Heidi Abrahamse
Email: habrahamse@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Olympic Studies Centre
Vacant
Pan-African Centre for Epidemics Research (PACER)
Vacant\ Learn More
Water and Health Research Centre
Prof Tobias G Barnard
Email: tgbarnard@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Faculty of Humanities (FH)
Africa Centre for Evidence
Prof Sikhumbuzo Mngadi
Email: smngadi@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Prof Veli Mitova
Email: vmitova@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Prof Lisa Otto
Email: lisao@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Data and Digital Communication
Prof Mandla Radebe
Email: mradebe@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health
Prof Benjamin Smart
Email: bsmart@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Social Change
Prof Patrick Bond
Email: pbond@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA)
Prof Prof Sadiyya Haffejee
Email: sadiyyah@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Sociological Research and Practice
Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme
Email: nmotsemme@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Study on Race, Gender, and Class
Prof Tinuade Ojo
Email: tinuadeo@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Karl Mittermaier Centre for Philosophy of Economics
Dr Michael Stettler
Email: mstettler@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Palaeo-Research Institute (incorporates the Centre for Anthropological Research (CFAR))
Dr Dipuo Kgotleng
Email: dkgotleng@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding (CPIU)
Prof Erin McCandless
Email: erinm@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Faculty of Law (FL)
Centre for Banking Law
Dr Cayle Lupton
Email: clupton@uj.ac.za
Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law (CICLASS)
Prof Elmarie Fourie
Email: esfourie@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Forensic Investigation and Criminal Justice Centre
Prof Whatney Murdoch
Email: mwatney@uj.ac.za
Research Centre for Private International Law in Emerging Countries
Prof Jan Neels
Email: jlneels@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC)
Prof David Bilchitz
Email: davidb@saifac.org.za\ Learn More
Faculty of Science (FS)
African Centre for DNA Barcoding
Prof Kowiyou Yessoufou
Email: kowiyouy@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Astro-particle Physics (CAPP)
Prof Soebur Razzaque
Email: srazzaque@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation
Prof Bettine Jansen van Vuuren
Email: bettinevv@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Centre for Innovative Food Research (CIFR)
Prof Oluwafemi Adebo
Email: oadebo@uj.ac.za
Centre for Nanomaterials Science in Research
Prof Omotayo Arotiba
Email: oarotiba@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Natural Product Research
Prof Derek Ndinteh
Email: dndinteh@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
DSI NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA)
Prof Nicola Wagner
Email: nwagner@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Paleoproterozoic Mineralization Research Centre (PPM)
Prof Albertus Smith
Email: bertuss@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Postharvest and Agro-Processing Research Centre
Prof Olaniyi Fawole
Email: olaniyif@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics
Dr Fidele Tugizimana and Dr Msizi Mhlongo
Emails: ftugizimana@uj.ac.za@uj.ac.za and mmhlongo@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Research Centre in Synthesis and Catalysis
Dr Bonathile Makhubela
Email: bmakhubela@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Salient Patterns Artificial Intelligence Research Centre(SPARC)
Prof Dustin van der Haar
Email: dvanderhaar@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Flagship Institutes
Institute for Future of Knowledge (IFK)
Prof Arthur Mutambara
Email: amutambara@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Institute for AI Systems (IAIS)
Prof Babu Sena Paul
Email: bspaul@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC)
Prof Siphamandla Zondi
Email: siphamandlaz@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS)
Prof Victoria Collis-Buthelezi
Email: victoriacb@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
University of Johannesburg Confucius Institute (UJCI)
Prof David Monyae
Email: dmonyae@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS)
Centre for Telecommunication
Prof Theo Swart
Email: tgswart@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Centre for Data Ethics (CDE)
Prof Tapiwa Chagonda
Email: tchagonda@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Inter-Faculty Centres and Institutes
Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technology Research Centre (BEAHT RC)
Dr Habib Noorbhai (Health Sciences) and Vacant (Engineering)
Email: habibn@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Joint Research Centre for Water and Environmental Science and Technology (JRC-West)
Prof Soraya Malinga (Science) and Prof Mbangiseni Nepfumbada (Engineering)
Email: smalinga@uj.ac.za and mpnepfumbada@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Joint Research Centre on Climate Change and Smart Mobility (JRC-CCSM)
Dr Kristy Langerman (Science), Nickey Janse van Rensburg (Engineering) and Prof Noleen Pisa (Business and Economics)
Email: klangerman@uj.ac.za, nickeyjvr@uj.ac.za and noleenp@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Johannesburg Business School (JBS)
Centre for Digital Transformation
To be confirmed
Centre for Public Policy and African Studies
Prof Sydney Mufamadi
Email: sydneym@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Johannesburg Business School Centre for Entrepreneurship
Ms Machaka Mosehana
Email: machakam@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Strategic Initiatives and Administration
Centre for Africa-China Studies (CACS)
Prof David Monyae
Email: dmonyae@uj.ac.za\ Learn More
Joint UJ and University of West Indies Institute for Global African Affairs
Prof Siphamandla Zondi
Email: siphamandlaz@uj.ac.za\ Learn More