Zeblon Z Vilakazi was appointed Group Executive for Research
and Development at the South African Nuclear Energy
Corporation (Necsa) in 2011, while also serving as the director
of iThemba LABS ¨C a position he has held since 2007.
He holds the title of Honorary Professor of Physics at the
University of Cape Town. Dr Vilakazi currently serves - among
others - as a member of the Program Advisory Committee of the
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. In 2010 he
was nominated by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global
Leader. Dr Vilakazi's research interests include heavy-ion
collisions at high energies and computational physics. |