Visit of a delegation from South Africa

On September 9, at HIL we had the pleasure of hosting a delegation from South Africa, which included representatives of:

University of Zululand
– prof. Nokuthula Kunene – Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation
– prof. Khoboso Lehloenya – Dean of the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering
– prof. Jili Thulani from the Faculty of Physics

Nelson Mandela University
– prof. Jaco Oliver – Director of the Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy
– Dr. Zikhona Tywabi-Ngeva from the Faculty of Chemistry

University of South Africa
– Dr. Sithole Makgamathe from the Department of Physics

and iThemba LABs
– Dr. Mlungisi Nkosi – Head of the Tandetron Laboratory

During the meeting, we listened to short presentations of all institutions and then invited our guests on a tour of the Laboratory. We presented the ICARE experimental setup (Dr. Agnieszka Trzcińska), the NEDA+EAGLE setup (Dr. Marcin Palacz) and the radiobiological laboratory, which was talked about by Dr. Urszula Kaźmierczak.

Later in the meeting, we also visited the Center of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw.