WELCOME

Welcome to our research group at Stellenbosch University. We provide decision support within the context of healthcare and ecology by finding efficient and sustainable ways of improvement through mathematical modelling, optimisation and simulation techniques.

WHAT WE DO

Research

to find and promote ways of doing the right things the right way through mathematical modelling, optimisation and simulation techniques

Teach and mentor

to train, develop and empower scientific young minds to become innovative and creative problem solvers

Reach out

to give back with purpose to society through applied research, active engagement and problem solving within the contexts we find ourselves in.

LINKE POTGIETER

Associate Professor

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

HANNAH JARVIS

Masters student

“Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if He wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.” – Philip Neri

KLARA ENGELBRECHT

4th year student

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

NATASHA SIBANDA

4th year student

CHRIS LAUBSCHER-PRETORIUS

4th year student

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

DIRK HUMAN

Research associate

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." - Bill Gates