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New P-rated researchers
Dr Chris Trisos, who directs the Climate
Risk Laboratory at the African Climate
and Development Initiative (ACDI), was
awarded a P rating. His research focuses
on climate change risks, building tools
to predict where and when these risks
appear, and how best to respond to them.
Dr Ryan Nefdt, a senior lecturer in
UCT’’s Department of Philosophy, who
also received the 2020/21 Human Sciences
Research Council (HSRC) Emerging
Researcher Award. Nefdt’s research is
centred in the broad area of cognitive
science. He is the only P-rated researcher
in humanities at UCT and one of only two
in South Africa.
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Dr Rosalie Tostevin, who heads up the
Ancient Life and Environments (ALE)
Lab in the Department of Geological
Sciences, where she studies interactions
between life and the environment
millions to billions of years ago.
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Growing up in Cape Town
with its fynbos and the
ocean but also deep
inequalities in income
inspired an interest in
ecology and economics.”
