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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
A study of magnetic disturbances during selected geomagnetic storms at two conjugate magnetic observatories in a low latitude region, Tamanrasset (TAM) and Keetmanshoop (KMH)	Emmanuel	Nahayo	South African National Space Agency (SANSA)	(UKZN)
3D structure of the Milky Way using parallaxes from Bayesian method	James	Chibueze	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Towards Constraining the properties of a nearby Galactic Pulsar and its Wind Nebula via Observations and Modelling	Christo	Venter	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
On the Winding Angle of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field	Nicholas Eugene	Engelbrecht	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Assessing Numerical Methods and characterizing pseudoparticle trajectories and in galactic cosmic Ray transport models	Katlego	Moloto	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Matching MeerKAT observations of the Bullet Cluster with data from telescope on NASA Super Pressure Balloon	Ilani	Loubser	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Addressing the cosmological coincidence problem	Shambel	Akalu	North-West University (NWU)	(UCT) (NWU)
Gauging the Chaplygin Dark Universe	Gary	Tupper	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Using SALT polarimetric observations to test interstellar dust physics	Siddharth	Maharana	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Dark Interactions	Amare	Abebe	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Taxanomic classification of asteroids in the ATLAS SSCAT database	Nicolas	Erasmus	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Searching for Internal Absorption Signatures in High-Redshift Blazars	Anton	Dmytriiev	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
The Spacecraft Potential as a Density Proxy	Du Toit	Strauss	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Single pulse analysis of Galactic fast transients discovered with MeerKAT	Mechiel	Bezuidenhout	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
HI Properties of Galaxy Pairs	Thomas	Jarrett	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
A High Resolution Study of Star Formation in a Nearby Galaxy	D.J.	Pisano	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Studying the Circumgalactic Medium at High Resolution	D.J.	Pisano	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Multi-Wavelength Studies of Strong Gravitational Lensing	Lucia	Marchetti	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Identifying radio galaxies in DINGO data	Jacinta	Delhaize	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Machine Learning Techniques for Predicting Atmospheric Seeing Conditions at the Sutherland Observatory	Rudi	Kuhn	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)

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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
Constraining the properties of a nearby Galactic Pulsar and its Wind Nebula via Observations and Modelling	Christo	Venter	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
The MeerLICHT Southern All-Sky Survey	Paul	Groot	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Dynamics of scalar perturbations in the generalised teleparallel gravity	Amare	Abebe	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Multi-fluid perturbations in modified gravity	Amare	Abebe	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Observations of the COSMOS fields with Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT)	Ilani	Loubser	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
The Field-line Random Walk (FLRW) Process	Du Toit	Strauss	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Studying Point Source Contamination and Synchrotron Emission for Detection of the SZE-21cm	Charles	Takalana	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (UKZN)
MULTI-WAVELENGTH STUDY OF SFGs AND AGNs DETECTED IN THE RADIO	Lucia	Marchetti	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Exploring the Interplay between Particle Acceleration and Radiative Cooling in Extreme Astrophysical Environments	Markus	Boettcher	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Multi-Wavelength Studies of Strong Gravitational Lensing	Lucia	Marchetti	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Searching for giant radio galaxies in MeerKAT data with the MIGHTEE survey	Jacinta	Delhaize	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
The evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies with BEAMS	Rosalind	Skelton	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (UKZN)
The evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies with BEAMS	Rosalind	Skelton	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (UKZN)
Numerical Simulations of Astrospheres	Stefan	Ferreira	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Investigating poly(2,5)benzimidazole for its proton shielding capabilities	Lynndle	Square	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Biomass burning emissions characterization and long-range transport from southern Africa over the Indian ocean	Sivakumar	Venkataraman	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN) (NWU)
An exploratory study on Martian atmospheric characteristics, using GM3-v2	Sivakumar	Venkataraman	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Cross-correlations of HI intensity mapping from HIRAX with galaxy density and shear maps from Rubin-LSST	Kavilan	Moodley	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
SuperDARN and Airglow observations of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances	Judy	Stephenson	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UKZN)
Detecting surface composition inhomogeneity of asteroids	Nicolas	Erasmus	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (NWU)