Congratulations to Dr Sandile Khamanga

We wish to congratulate Dr Sandile Khamanga on being awarded the Y2 – Promising Young Researcher rating by the National Research Foundation (NRF). A researcher in this group is recognised by all or the over-riding majority of reviewers as having the potential to establish himself as a researcher (demonstrated by recent research products).

Dr Khamanga’s Research Interests include:

• Design of experiments and response surface methodology
• Mathematical and statistical modelling of drug release kinetics
• Formulation development and process optimization
• Microencapsulation of bitter tasting drugs
• Partial differential equations
• Linear algebra, properties of non-negative matrices, eigenvalue problems
• Solid state characterization of pharmaceuticals
• Canonical analysis