Academic Staff

The students would not be able to perform their research without the supervision of some world-class academic staff members who act as supervisors.

Dr Arno Barnard
Space Systems and Radiation Effects
Prof Japie Engelbrecht
Aeronautical Systems
Prof Herman Steyn
Aerospace and Industrial Control Systems

Dr Corné van Daalen
Autonomous Systems
Dr Lourens Visagie
Space Systems
Prof Willem Jordaan
Aerospace Systems

Dr Callen Fisher
Legged Robotics
Dr JC Schoeman
Autonomous Systems and Reinforcement Learning

Students

The core of the ESL is the people who research and work here. The majority of these people are postgraduate students working on obtaining their Masters or PhD degrees. Occasionally the ESL also hosts interns/short-term students from around the world (France, Germany, USA).

Doctoral Students

Andrew Murdoch
Emile Visser
Francois Bredell

Masters Students

Adam Sendzul
Alexander Bergerson
Altus Cilliers

Ben Edwards
Brandon Chetty
Chris Flood

Dane Groves
Dean Jeggels
Dirk Slabber

Hansie Barnard
Jacques Stoop
Jean Van Der Walt

Jurgen Van Der Merwe
Lauren Cooke
Madeleine Ackermann

Kelsey Thomas
Kyle Ahlschlager
Mikayla Isabeck

Nico Epler
Niel Theron
Phillip Lotriet

Rhyn Muller
Rowan Twilley
Ruan Delport

Ruben Van Tonder
Sa'ad Badat
Stephan Carstens

Stephano Buys
Thando Mtimkulu
Tian Cilliers

Xiangyiming Kong
Yusuf Mowzer
Zhengqiu Wu

Ernst Jordaan