Thokozani Majozi was born on 3 October 1972 and is a South African chemical engineer.
17 Facts About Thokozani Majozi
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Thokozani Majozi holds the South African Research Chair in Sustainable Process Engineering at the same university.
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Thokozani Majozi's research focuses on chemical process engineering, particularly batch chemical process integration.
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Thokozani Majozi was born in 1972 in KwaMashu in present-day KwaZulu-Natal.
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Thokozani Majozi's mother was a teacher and his father was a post office clerk.
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Thokozani Majozi attended Mqhawe High School in nearby Inanda, and he matriculated as the top achiever in the province.
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Thokozani Majozi completed a BScEng in chemical engineering at the University of Natal in 1994.
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In 1999, Thokozani Majozi moved to Manchester, England to study at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology on a Commonwealth Scholarship.
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Thokozani Majozi completed his PhD in process integration in 2002.
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In 2004, Thokozani Majozi was appointed as an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pretoria.
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Thokozani Majozi's research was initially supported by Water Research Commission funds given to Buckley, who transferred them to Majozi.
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Thokozani Majozi was tenured as a full professor at the University of Pretoria in 2008, and in parallel, from 2005 to 2009, he was an associate professor of computer science at the University of Pannonia in Veszprem, Hungary.
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Thokozani Majozi has focused in particular on the minimisation of industrial wastewater in batch processing; he was the first person to apply water minimisation techniques in batch plants.
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Thokozani Majozi has received three National Science and Technology Forum awards.
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Thokozani Majozi received the University of Pretoria's Leading Minds Centenary Award in 2008, the S2A3 British Association Silver Medal in 2008, the National Research Foundation's President Award in 2007 and 2009, and the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers Bill Neal-May Gold Award in 2010.
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Thokozani Majozi is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and he is a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, the South African Academy of Engineering, the Water Institute of Southern Africa, and the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
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Thokozani Majozi is an alumnus of the Global Young Academy.