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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
Relativistic neutron stars beyond general relativity	Bishop	Mongwane	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Quasinormal modes of a Schwarzschild black hole	Bishop	Mongwane	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Studying the ionization mechanism in a nearby starburst galaxy	Petro	Janse van Rensburg	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Modelling the modulation of light cosmic ray isotopes	Innocentia	Ramokgaba	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Multiwavelength properties of Nearby Galaxies using SALT and MeerKAT	Moses	Mogotsi	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT) (NWU)
Projects in Observational Cosmology	Catherine	Cress	University of South Africa (Unisa)	(UCT)
Optimising Detrending and Transit-Search Methods for Exoplanet Detection in KELT-South Light Curves	Rudi	Kuhn	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Classifying Sutherland Nights into Observing-Condition Regimes Using Unsupervised Learning	Rudi	Kuhn	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Predicting Scientific Impact in Astronomy	Sultan	Hassan	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Machine Learning Classification of Short Gamma-Ray Transients	Dimakatso	Maheso	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Pulse Decay Time Analysis of Short Gamma-Ray Transients with Fermi-GBM	Dimakatso	Maheso	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Investigating the Stellar Mg/Fe Trends in Group and Cluster Central Galaxies Using the Simba-C Cosmological Simulation	Renier	Hough	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Using MeerKAT HI cubes to stack ALMA CO observations of dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster	Nikki	Zabel	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
Understanding of Systematics in Stage-IV Galaxy Weak Lensing Surveys	Chandrachud B V	Dash	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Breaking the Baryonic Degeneracy: Disentangling Cosmology from Galaxy Formation using CAMELS	Renier	Hough	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Investigating the effects of various statistical model fitting criteria in Kosmulator	Renier	Hough	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Interacting Dark Energy with 3×2-Point Statistics: Synergy Between HIRAX and LSST	Kavilan	Moodley	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Exploring the millimeter and radio properties of Massive Star Forming Region G351.776-00.540 Using MeerKAT and ALMA Data	Chukwuebuka	Ugwu	University of South Africa (Unisa)	(NWU)
Dynamical State of BEAMS SZ-Selected Galaxy Clusters Hosting Radio AGN	Narges	Hatamkhani	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
The Growth of Large-Scale Structure: Dark Energy’s Imprint on Galaxy Distribution	Simthembile	Dlamini	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)

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Project	Supervisor		Affiliation	Node
Time-domain studies of compact binaries	Steve	Potter	South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)	(UCT)
CHARACTERISING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A2626 GALAXIES	Julia	Healy	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Star formation and quenching in massive clusters at z ~ 0.8	Matt	Hilton	University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
A potential triple supermassive blackhole system in a massive galaxy cluster at z = 0.83	Matt	Hilton	University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Tomographic Cross-Correlations of MALS Radio Cubes with DES Galaxy Surveys	Chandrachud B V	Dash	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Calibration of Weak Lensing Survey Systematics Using HI intensity mapping surveys	Chandrachud B V	Dash	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Searching for HI Counterparts of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Southern Sky	Chandreyee	Sengupta	North-West University (NWU)	(NWU)
Squeezed Bispectrum Correlations of MeerKLASS HI with DES Galaxies and Shear	Kavilan	Moodley	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Probing the evolution of the stellar-to-neutral hydrogen ratio using halo-based power spectra with HIRAX and LSST	Kavilan	Moodley	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
Millimeter and radio observational study of Massive Star Forming Region G323.459-0.079 Using MeerKAT and ALMA Data	Chukwuebuka	Ugwu	University of South Africa (Unisa)	(NWU)
Probing the primordial non-Gaussianity of the universe using the squeezed limit HI-ISW cross-bispectrum with HIRAX and Planck surveys.	Liantsoa Finaritra	Randrianjanahary	University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)
A radio study of the optically-discovered black hole X-ray binary AT2019wey	Rob	Fender	University of Cape Town (UCT)	(UCT)
Can a MeerKAT detect dark matter?	Geoff	Beck	University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)	(UCT) (UKZN) (NWU)