David Davidson to Head Tenth SARCHI Research Chair at Stellenbosch University

David Davidson, Professor in Computational Electromagnetics in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU), has been appointed to head the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) research chair of the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARCHI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF). This initiative aims to strengthen South Africa´s research capacity by direct national funding of additional research chairs at selected universities (over and above the usual funding for South Africa´s universities, which are all publicly funded institutions).