Thokozani Majozi is a full professor in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Wits University, where he also holds an NRF/DST Chair in Sustainable Process Engineering.

His major contributions to research to date are the development of a continuous-time framework for the synthesis of batch plants and a novel technique for near zero-effluent batch chemical facilities. Both these contributions have been adopted by industry.

He started his professional career as a junior process engineer at Unilever in 1994. In 1996 he was appointed as a senior process engineer: competency improvement specialist at Dow AgroSciences and in 2002 he joined Sasol Technology as a technology leader for optimization and integration.

He was appointed as an associate professor at University of Pretoria in 2004 and promoted to a full professor at the end of 2008. He was also an associate professor in computer science at the University of Pannonia in Hungary from 2005 to 2009.

Majozi completed his BScEng (Chemical) degree in 1994 and his MScEng degree (Chemical) in 1998 at the University of Natal. In 2002 he completed his PhD (Process Integration) at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the United Kingdom (UK).

He is a member of various international scientific committees and a Fellow for the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf), Academy of Engineering of SA and Water Institute of Southern Africa. He was also a Vice-President for the Engineering Council of SA 2009 to 2012 and a Fellow for the CSIR from 2009 to 2013.

Prof Majozi also has extensive industrial experience, having served 10 years in industry prior to joining academia. He continues to work with industry as a consultant and a collaborator. He has also served on various review committees, including the NRF/NLC Review in 2005 and the Ministerial Review Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation Landscape of South Africa.

He has received numerous awards for his research including the Zdenek Burianec Memorial Award (Italy, 2005). He is twice a recipient of the National Science and Technology Forum Award (2006 and 2010) and twice a recipient of the National Research Foundation President’s Award (2007 and 2008). In 2009, he won the prestigious S2A3 British Association Medal (Silver) and in 2010 was awarded the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers Bill Neal-May Gold Medal. Recently, he received the AU-TWAS Award in Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (2012).

Majozi is author and co-author of more than 150 scientific publications, including a book in Batch Chemical Process Integration published by Springer in January 2010 and Synthesis, Design and Resources Optimization, published by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis in 2015.

Majozi is also an NRF B1 rated researcher.