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Intro
NRF-iThemba LABS (Laboratory for Accelerator Based Science)
At the tip of Africa lies the largest particle accelerator facility in the Southern Hemisphere and the only cyclotron facility of its kind on the African continent.
iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Science (LABS), a research facility of the National Research Foundation (NRF), operates from sites located in Cape Town and Johannesburg offering applied and fundamental research capacity and infrastructure for accelerator-based sciences.
iThemba LABS has been producing radioisotopes for both the local and international market according to current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) in specialised facilities and supplied for clinical application, for more than 30 years.
Details
JOINED: 2016
CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER
Science Engagement provides a vehicle to showcase the impact of our science within local communities as well as the school sector.
iThemba LABS is committed to advance knowledge, to transform lives, and to inspire a nation as we contribute to the betterment of society.
JOINED: 2016
CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER
Representative
Department of Physics University of Cape Town
Sahal Yacoob
Sahal’s completed a Masters degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cape Town in 2002, and prior to starting a PhD at Northwestern University, he worked briefly at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Northwestern. He completed his PhD in 2010 on the measurement of the W boson mass at the D0 experiment, following which he started working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, initially as part of the University of Witwatersrand and currently as a faculty member of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, which are both in South Africa. Sahal has been both an international moderator, and local facilitator of the IPPOG international masterclass program. Since returning to South Africa in 2012 we has been actively seeking outreach opportunities, hosting multiple events for school groups at UKZN, a particle physics winter school for undergraduate university students, public lectures, and articles in the local media. Sahal is also a contributor and editor on the Siyavula project for open source textbooks and has been the ‘Custodian of Scientific Integrity’ in workshops with the South African Department of Basic Education.
Sahal joined IPPOG in 2014 as the first delegate from South Africa in IPPOG.
