We are delighted to announce that Prof. Aubrey Mainza, head of the University of Cape Town's Chemical Engineering Department, was inaugurated as one of the new Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the annual Awards Ceremony on 19 October. Prof. Mainza is a consultant to MEI's comminution conferences, including next year's Comminution '23, where he will be presenting a keynote lecture.
Aubrey was one of twenty-nine of the country’s leading scholars and scientists who were inaugurated by ASSAf, which has a core function to honour the country’s most outstanding scholars by electing them to Membership of the Academy. ASSAf Members are drawn from the full spectrum of disciplines. Membership of the Academy is a great honour and is in recognition of scholarly achievement. Members are the core asset of the Academy and give of their time and expertise voluntarily in the service of society.
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| Aubrey (2nd left) at Comminution '16 in Cape Town |
It was also good to see another well known mineral processor honoured. Prof. Rodney Jones is a consulting chemical engineer, senior technical specialist, at the pyrometallurgy division of Mintek and an Honorary Adjunct Professor in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand.
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| Rodney Jones at Copper-Cobalt conference in Zambia, 2015 |
Many congratulations Aubrey and Rodney.
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As a colleague in founding the Global Comminution Collaborative, I am very happy and proud of my good friend´s accomplishment! Well deserved honor to you, Aubrey! You are one of the very few people in the field that can navigate from theory to practice with no hick-ups!
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro