# 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.
[Back to Research@UJ](https://www.uj.ac.za/research-at-uj/)
## Quick Links to Faculties
[Art, Design and Architecture (FADA)](#jump-fada)\
[Business and Economics (CBE)](#jump-cbe)\
[Education (FE)](#jump-education)\
[Engineering and the Built Environment (FEBE)](#jump-febe)\
[Health Sciences (FHS)](#jump-health)\
[Humanities (FH)](#jump-humanities)\
[Law (FL)](#jump-law)\
[Science (FS)](#jump-science)
[Flagship Institutes](#jump-flagship)\
[Intelligent Systems (IIS)](#jump-iis)\
[Inter-Faculty Centres and Institutes](#jump-ifc)\
[Johannesburg Business School (JBS)](#jump-jbs)\
[Strategic Initiatives and Administration](#jump-strat-admin)
## 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](https://www.viad.co.za/)
## 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](https://www.competition.org.za/)
#### Centre for Model-Based Planning
Vacant
#### Centre for Public Management and Governance
##### Prof Vain Jarbandhan
Email: vainj@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/college-of-business-and-economics/schools/school-of-public-management-governance-and-public-policy/centre-for-public-management-and-governance/)
#### Centre for Wellbeing, AI and Social Impact
##### Prof Talita Greyling
Email: talitag@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/prof-talita-greyling/)
#### Centre for Work Performance
Vacant
#### Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (Africa)
##### Prof Noleen Pisa
Email:noleenp@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/college-of-business-and-economics/schools/school-of-management/departments/department-of-transport-and-supply-chain-management/itls-africa/)
#### Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC)
##### Ms Nomsa Phindile Nkosi
Email: phindilen@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/college-of-business-and-economics/schools/school-of-management/public-environmental-economics-research-centre/)
#### Technopreneurship Centre
##### Mr Koena (Ronny) Mabokela
Email: rmabokela@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/college-of-business-and-economics/schools/school-of-consumer-intelligence-and-information-systems/technopreneurship-centre/)
## Faculty of Education (FE)
#### Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies
##### Prof Emnet Woldegiorgis (Acting)
Email: emnetw@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/education/centres/ali-mazrui-centre-for-higher-education-studies/)
#### Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (CALTSTEAM)
##### Prof Umesh Ramnarain
Email: uramnarain@uj.ac.za\
[Learn more](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/education/centres/centre-for-advanced-learning-technologies-in-science-technology-engineering-arts-and-mathematics/)
#### Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT)
##### Prof June Bam-Hutchison
Email: juneb@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/education/centres/centre-for-education-rights-and-transformation/)
#### Centre for Neurodiversity @ UJ (CN@UJ)
##### Prof Boitumelo Diale
Email: tumid@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/education/centres/centre-for-neurodiversity-uj/)
## 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](https://jenano.co.za/aboutus/)
#### Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment
##### Prof Innocent Musonda
Email: imusonda@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/engineering-the-built-environment/centers-units-institutes-stations/carinbe/)
#### 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](https://www.ccpfews.uj.ac.za/)
#### Centre for Ecological Intelligence (CEI)
##### Prof Michael Rudolph
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/engineering-the-built-environment/centers-units-institutes-stations/centre-for-ecological-intelligence/)
#### Centre for Nanoengineering and Advanced Materials (CNAM)
##### Prof Peter Olubambi
Email: polubambi@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/engineering-the-built-environment/departments-2/department-of-metallurgy/research/)
#### Centre for Smart Information and Communication Systems (CSICS)
##### Prof Ghanshyam Singh
Email: ghanshyams@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/engineering-the-built-environment/departments-2/department-of-electrical-and-electronic-engineering-science/research/)
#### Centre for Sustainable Material and Construction Technologies (SMaCT)
##### Prof Jeffrey Mahachi
Email: jmahachi@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/engineering-the-built-environment/schools/school-of-civil-engineering-and-the-built-environment/department-of-civil-engineering-technology/sustainable-materials-and-construction-smact/)
#### Construction Industry Development Board Centre of Excellence
##### Prof Clinton Aigbavboa
Email: calgbavboa@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/professor-clinton-aigbavboa/)
#### Mineral Processing and Technology Research Centre
##### Prof Antoine Mulaba-Bafubiandi
Email: amulaba@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/prof-antoine-floribert-mulaba-bafubiandi/)
#### Nuclear Research Centre
##### Prof Simon Connell
Email: shconnell@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/prof-simon-connell-2/)
#### Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre
##### Prof Clinton Aigbavboa
Email: calgbavboa@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/engineering-the-built-environment/centers-units-institutes-stations/the-sustainable-human-settlement-and-construction-research-centre/)
#### Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Research Centre (jointly with Nanjing Tech University in China)
##### Prof Tien-Chien Jen
Email: tjen@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://jenano.co.za/team/)
## Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS)
#### Laser Research Centre
##### Prof Heidi Abrahamse
Email: habrahamse@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/health-sciences/research-centres/laser-research-centre/)
#### Olympic Studies Centre
##### Vacant
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/health-sciences/departments-2/sport-and-movement-studies/olympic-studies-centre/)
#### Pan-African Centre for Epidemics Research (PACER)
Vacant\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/health-sciences/pan-african-centre-for-epidemics-research-pacer/)
#### Water and Health Research Centre
##### Prof Tobias G Barnard
Email: tgbarnard@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/health-sciences/research-centres/water-and-health-research-centre/)
## Faculty of Humanities (FH)
#### Africa Centre for Evidence
##### Prof Sikhumbuzo Mngadi
Email: smngadi@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/research/research-centres/africa-centre-for-evidence/)
#### African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
##### Prof Veli Mitova
Email: vmitova@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/philosophy/philosophy-centres/african-centre-for-epistemology-and-philosophy-of-science/)
#### Centre for African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
##### Prof Lisa Otto
Email: lisao@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/research-centres/sarchi-chair-african-diplomacy-and-foreign-policy/about/)
#### Centre for Data and Digital Communication
##### Prof Mandla Radebe
Email: mradebe@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/prof-mandla-radebe/)
#### Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health
##### Prof Benjamin Smart
Email: bsmart@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://cpemph.org/)
#### Centre for Social Change
##### Prof Patrick Bond
Email: pbond@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/research-centres/centre-for-social-change/)
#### Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA)
##### Prof Prof Sadiyya Haffejee
Email: sadiyyah@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/research/research-centres/centre-for-social-development-in-africa-csda/#:~:text=The%20Centre%20for%20Social%20Development,will%20be%20able%20to%20assess)
#### Centre for Sociological Research and Practice
##### Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme
Email: nmotsemme@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/research/research-centres/centre-for-sociological-research-and-practice/)
#### Centre for Study on Race, Gender, and Class
##### Prof Tinuade Ojo
Email: tinuadeo@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/centre-for-the-study-of-race-gender-class/)
#### Karl Mittermaier Centre for Philosophy of Economics
##### Dr Michael Stettler
Email: mstettler@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://kmcpe.co.za/)
#### Palaeo-Research Institute (incorporates the Centre for Anthropological Research (CFAR))
##### Dr Dipuo Kgotleng
Email: dkgotleng@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/research/research-centres/palaeo-research-institute/)
#### Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding (CPIU)
##### Prof Erin McCandless
Email: erinm@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/research/research-centres/the-qatar-south-african-centre-for-peace-and-intercultural-understanding-cpiu/)
## 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/law/centre-for-international-and-comparative-labour-and-social-security-law/)
#### 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/law/research-centre-for-private-international-law-in-emerging-countries/)
#### South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC)
##### Prof David Bilchitz
Email: davidb@saifac.org.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/law/saifac)
## Faculty of Science (FS)
#### African Centre for DNA Barcoding
##### Prof Kowiyou Yessoufou
Email: kowiyouy@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/prof-kowiyou-yessoufou/)
#### Centre for Astro-particle Physics (CAPP)
##### Prof Soebur Razzaque
Email: srazzaque@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/science/departments-2/physics/research/astrophysics/the-centre-for-astro-particle-physics-capp/)
#### Centre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation
##### Prof Bettine Jansen van Vuuren
Email: bettinevv@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://molzoolab.co.za/)
#### 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/prof-omotayo-a-arotiba/)
#### Centre for Natural Product Research
##### Prof Derek Ndinteh
Email: dndinteh@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/derek-tantoh-ndinteh/)
#### DSI NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA)
##### Prof Nicola Wagner
Email: nwagner@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://cimera.co.za/)
#### Paleoproterozoic Mineralization Research Centre (PPM)
##### Prof Albertus Smith
Email: bertuss@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/science/departments-2/geology/research/ppm-research/)
#### Postharvest and Agro-Processing Research Centre
##### Prof Olaniyi Fawole
Email: olaniyif@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/olaniyi-amos-fawole/)
#### 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/dr-fidele-tugizimana/)
#### Research Centre in Synthesis and Catalysis
##### Dr Bonathile Makhubela
Email: bmakhubela@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/banothile-makhubela/)
#### Salient Patterns Artificial Intelligence Research Centre(SPARC)
##### Prof Dustin van der Haar
Email: dvanderhaar@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/dustin-van-der-haar/)
## Flagship Institutes
#### Institute for Future of Knowledge (IFK)
##### Prof Arthur Mutambara
Email: amutambara@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://futureofknowledge.org/)
#### Institute for AI Systems (IAIS)
##### Prof Babu Sena Paul
Email: bspaul@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://pure.uj.ac.za/en/organisations/institute-for-intelligent-systems)
#### Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC)
##### Prof Siphamandla Zondi
Email: siphamandlaz@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://ipatc.joburg/)
#### Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS)
##### Prof Victoria Collis-Buthelezi
Email: victoriacb@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://jias.joburg/)
#### University of Johannesburg Confucius Institute (UJCI)
##### Prof David Monyae
Email: dmonyae@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://confucius-institute.joburg/)
## Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS)
#### Centre for Telecommunication
##### Prof Theo Swart
Email: tgswart@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/engineering-the-built-environment/centers-units-institutes-stations/institute-for-intelligent-systems/)
#### Centre for Data Ethics (CDE)
##### Prof Tapiwa Chagonda
Email: tchagonda@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/tapiwa-chagonda/)
## 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/health-sciences/biomedical-engineering-and-healthcare-technology/)
#### 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/charter-for-the-jrc-west-20201005.pdf)
#### 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/kristy-langerman/)
## 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](https://www.uj.ac.za/faculty/college-of-business-and-economics/centre-for-public-policy-and-african-studies/)
#### Johannesburg Business School Centre for Entrepreneurship
##### Ms Machaka Mosehana
Email: machakam@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://jbs.ac.za/jbs-centre-for-entrepreneurship/)
## Strategic Initiatives and Administration
#### Centre for Africa-China Studies (CACS)
##### Prof David Monyae
Email: dmonyae@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.cacs.org.za/)
#### Joint UJ and University of West Indies Institute for Global African Affairs
##### Prof Siphamandla Zondi
Email: siphamandlaz@uj.ac.za\
[Learn More](https://www.uj.ac.za/members/siphamandla-zondi/)