SAAO - South African Astronomical Observatory

PhD Students


Motee Phorah


Motee's Thesis Title is "The effects of radiation and convection on stellar oscillations." His reseach interest is Stellar Pulsations

Motee's PhD Supervision Team are:

  1. Dr T Medupe (SAAO)
  2. Dr P A Woudt (UCT)
  3. Prof J Christensen-Dalsgaard (Aaarhus Univ., Denmark)
  4. Dr G Houdek (Cambridge Univ., United Kingdom)
  5. Prof M J Thompson (Sheffield Univ., United Kingdom)

Nceba Mhlahlo


Nceba's course of study is PhD - Astronomy and Astrophysics and his research title is "The study of accretion dynamics and the location of emission regions in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable Stars".

Nceba's research interests include Interacting magnetic binary stars.

Supervisors: Patric Woudt (UCT), Steve Potter (SAAO)
Technical Supervisors: David Buckley (SAAO), Vik Dhillon (University of Sheffield) and Brian Warner (University of Cape Town).

Hannah Worters


Hannah is a student from the University of Central Lancashire, a member institute of the UK SALT Consortium. She is here on placement for twelve months working half-time for SALT, developing an exposure time calculator for SALTICAM, observing with the SALT astronomers and helping with various other tasks. Hannah is also working on her PhD research into the very late thermal pusle object, V4334 Sgr.