Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

Chief Executive Officer, National Research Foundation

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is Chief Executive Officer of National Research Foundation, in the role since April 2021.

The National Research Foundation is an independent statutory body that funds research, research facilities and the development of researchers in South Africa. Its headquarters are in Pretoria.

In the job

  1. The NRF board announced Nelwamondo as the new CEO, to take up the post on 1 April 2021. Source

  2. The NRF was funding a smaller number of postgraduate students more comprehensively, under a system in its second intake. Source

Career before

  1. 2008Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering (Computational Intelligence), University of the Witwatersrand

Sources

  1. engineeringnews.co.za
  2. en.wikipedia.org
  3. en.wikipedia.org
  4. researchprofessionalnews.com

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