Jeanet Conradie is a research fellow and Emeritus Professor at the University of the Free State. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry in 2000 with a focus on chemical kinetics and electrochemistry. In 2002, she furthered her expertise in computational chemistry during a postdoctoral research visit at the University of Tromso in Norway. She is ranked amongst the top 2% scientists in the world on the lists published by Stanford University in the United States on 10 October 2022. Her research interests include the synthesis, characterisation, and computational and electrochemical analysis of ligands, transition metal complexes, transition states, and reaction intermediates for applications in drug design, DSSC, and catalysis.