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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
Searching for pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in a nearby galaxy using MeerKAT data	Christo	Venter	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Exploring the Ophiuchus cluster with MKT-GPS Survey.	Sushma	Kurapati	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Non-thermal X-ray emission from supernova remnants as a probe of particle acceleration efficiency	Iurii	Sushch	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Solar differential rotation as a function of heliographic latitude	Ruhann	Steyn	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Periodic OH masers in G9.62+0.20E	Johan	van der Walt	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
A density functional study of Atomic Oxygen interaction on Poly(2,5)benzimidazole Nanocomposite.	Lynndle	Square	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
A study of electron and positron modulation over a solar cycle with PAMELA and AMS02 data	Donald	Ngobeni	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Search for variable stars in the OGLE II database	Malefetsane Daniel	Nhlapo	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Gauging the Chaplygin Universe	Gary	Tupper	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Numerical modelling of Astrospheres	Stefan	Ferreira	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Early-type galaxies on the WISE MIR Star-forming main sequence	Jamie	Bok	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Galactic Cosmic Rays detected by SOLSTICE	Martin	Snow	University of the Western Cape (UWC)	(NWU)
Total Solar Irradiance from a Diode	Martin	Snow	University of the Western Cape (UWC)	(NWU)
Mock observations of stellar interactions and explosions	Shazrene	Mohamed	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
GAIA machine learning -Honours	Zolile	Mguda	University of South Africa (Unisa)	(UCT)
Comparing HI Surveys of the Fornax Cluster	D.J.	Pisano	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Comparing HI Maps from IMAGINE and MHONGOOSE	D.J.	Pisano	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Long-term photometric study of Be X-ray binaries using MeerLICHT	Itumeleng	Monageng	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Identifying interesting spectral features in Be/X-ray binaries using SALT/RSS & HRS data	Lee	Townsend	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
The Star Formation Histories of Galaxies on the Main Sequence	Rosalind	Skelton	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)

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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
Modelling Phase-resolved Light Curves and Spectra from 'Spider' Pulsar Binaries	Christo	Venter	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
A pulsar and Fast Radio Bursts search in a nearby galaxy with MeerKAT	Christo	Venter	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Modelling of light curves of gamma-ray binaries	Iurii	Sushch	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Numerical modelling of Astrospheres	Stefan	Ferreira	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Measuring the Solar Diameter from Space	Martin	Snow	University of the Western Cape (UWC)	(NWU)
How Active Can the Sun Be?	Martin	Snow	University of the Western Cape (UWC)	(UKZN)
Relativistic Cosmology and Astrophysics Projects	Peter	Dunsby	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Understanding the detector background of the AstroSat-SXT instrument	Sunil	Chandra	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
The Cosmic Web in the LADUMA field	Sarah	Blyth	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
GAIA machine learning - Masters	Zolile	Mguda	University of South Africa (Unisa)	(UCT)
MeerChoirs: Using SALT & MeerKAT to study Galaxy Evolution in Groups + SALT NIR IFU Instrument Commissioning	Moses	Mogotsi	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Increasing the sensitivity of the MHONGOOSE survey	D.J.	Pisano	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Long-term multiwavelength monitoring of gamma-ray binaries	Itumeleng	Monageng	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Circular Polarization in the MIGHTEE Deep Fields	Russ	Taylor	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Improving Imaging Performance and Fidelity for MeerKAT	Srikrishna	Sekhar	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
The Galactic population of compact objects	Paul	Groot	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Eclipsing binaries in the MeerLICHT database	Paul	Groot	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Searching and characterising pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud with MeerKAT	Marisa	Geyer	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Studies of Gas Kinematics and Star Formation in MHONGOOSE Galaxies	Moses	Mogotsi	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Searching for giant radio galaxies in MeerKAT data from the MIGHTEE survey	Jacinta	Delhaize	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)