SIMMET Welcome International Team Members

The SIMMET group welcome two new members who have joined us in January this year (2024). The first is Dr. Puja Hansdah, who is a new postdoc in the group on a Wits Centennial Fellowship from India. She will be working on cyanide recovery from mining effluents, a project in collaboration with Mintek. Dr Hansdah obtained …

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Two new projects announced for 2024

The SIMMET Research Group is glad to announce to new research projects for 2024: You can apply for these research projects by contacting us on our contact page, citing the position and level at which you would like to apply. SIMMET also welcomes ARM and Mintek as new funders. Since its inception the research group …

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New members join the SIMMET team for 2024

The SIMMET group welcomes a new group of postgraduate students starting their projects this year. We look forward to their contributions to the group and wish them all much success and exciting results in their projects. They are: We say goodbye to the following team members now graduating, and wish them all well for their …

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SIMMET concludes 2023 with first paper-based PhD

Following its last bi-weekly Talk&Tell seminar for 2023 on Friday 24 November, the SIMMET Research Group concluded the academic year with a year-end braai to celebrate its achievements. Among its achievements this year, PhD student Samaneh Teimouri became the Wits School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering’s first student to submit a PhD based on journal …

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