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08 May 2024
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The Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Prof Paul Oberholster, has the pleasure of inviting you to the inaugural lecture of Prof Dirk Opperman.
Date: 21 May 2024
Time: 17:30
Venue: Equitas
Click here to RSVP before Wednesday, 15 May 2024. Alternatively, contact Christelle van Rooyen on +27 51 401 9190.
About Prof Dirk Opperman
Prof Dirk Opperman obtained his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of the Free State in 2008. This was followed by postdoctoral research on directed evolution with Prof Manfred T Reetz at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (Germany). In 2010, he was appointed in the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry. He subsequently established structural biology at the UFS, and his current research focus lies at the interface of evolutionary and structure-function relationships of biocatalysts, and their application in green chemistry. He is an NRF B-rated researcher with co-authored papers in Science, Nature Communications, and Angewandte Chemie.
His research has been funded by both local and international organisations, ranging from industries such as SASOL to the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF, UK). He has a long-standing collaboration with researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TUDelft, the Netherlands) and is currently part of a European Research Area Network Cofund (ERA-NET Cofund) partnership on Food Systems and Climate (FOSC) that develops biocatalysts for upcycling waste.
Exceptional achievement for UFS student in Quantity Surveying
2007-09-21
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A student from the University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management, Ms Pulane Mahloka, recently received the gold medal for exceptional final year student in South Africa for 2006 from the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS). She is the first black student to received this prestigious award. She is the fourteenth UFS student since 1970 to receive this medal, of which six are women. Pictured are, from the left: Mr Hendrik van Vuuren (Lecturer at the UFS Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management), Ms Mahloka and Ms Benita Kotze (Lecturer at the UFS Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management).
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