REGISTRATION
INFORMATION
World University Rankings - Top 600

DUT Awarded First SARChI Research Chair

DUT Awarded First SARChI Research Chair

DUT was awarded the first SARChI (South African Research Chair Initiative) in the Development and Optimisation of Wastewater Treatment Technology for Developing Economies.

The SARChI Research Chair will assist the University in increasing its research capacity and contribute to the Human Resource Capital Development of the country as well as assist the University in driving its research strategy.

Professor Thor Axel Stenström is the SARChI Research Chair. He completed his PhD at the University of Gothenburg, Swedern, in 1989.

During the last 35 years, he worked at the “interface” between health and environmental questions, with a focus on Water and Sanitation and has gained an international reputation in the areas of risk assessment and health-related environmental issues. His work included assessments of the barrier functions of water and wastewater processes in large and small-scale treatment, questions related to emergency response and multidisciplinary applied research where technology and health impact relates to the agricultural and social fields.

Before taking up the position at DUT, Prof Stenström was a Chief Microbiologist at the Swedish Institute for Preventive Disease Control, Senior Research Fellow at the Bio-resource group of the Stockholm Environment Institute and part-time Professor at the University of Life Sciences, Norway, in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is currently an advisor for the World Health Organisation in Geneva, specifically dealing with risk assessment and Sanitation Safety Planning.

As an applied researcher, he has headed and participated in research projects covering drinking water, wastewater and excreta, surface waters and integrated water as well as wastewater management both in industrialised countries and in developing economies. His work is related to drinking water and sanitation management practices in the combined interventions between diarrheal disease and dengue vector control in Asia and Latin America. He is supervising several PhD students, both in Scandinavia and from countries representing developing economies. He has also examined PhD theses from Africa, Australia and Europe. He has an extensive publication record.

Pictured: Professor Thor Axel Stenström

No comments