All Team

All Team

Florence Musundwa BA (Hons), NWU

Commercial Director

Florence Musundwa is an recipient of the 2018 Exceptional Woman of Excellence award from the Women Economic Forum. She has served as a contributor in the 2018 B20 SME committee, Graca Machels Trust Women Advancing Africa Forum, and the Commonwealth Africa youth entrepreneurs (CAYE). Florence has been recently nominated to serve in the private sector alliance for the EMPOWER G20…

Dr Manfred Scriba, PhD

Manfred Scriba holds a Ph.D in Experimental Physics from the University of Cape Town on the Synthesis and characterization of doped silicon nanoparticles. He is the manager of the DST-CSIR Nanomaterial Industrial Development Program at the DST-CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre and leads a team of researchers and engineers that develop nanomaterials and nanocomposites and also support the industry to develop…

Professor Neil Coville, PhD

Neil Coville obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, before proceeding to McGill University, Montreal in 1968 where he obtained his Ph.D degree (1973). After post-doctoral work at Harvard University he returned to Wits in 1976. He worked his way through the ranks in the School of Chemistry, from lecturer to Chair…

Boitumelo Makgabutlane MTech, UNISA

Nanotech Production Scientist

Boitumelo Makgabutlane obtained her MTech degree at the University of South Africa (UNISA), focused on material synthesis and application for environmental remediation. She also has a Science Communication qualification from Stellenbosch University. She worked at the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) as a science communicator in 2018, and in February 2019, she was appointed as a…

Sabelo Mhlanga PhD, Wits

Founder and Director

Sabelo Mhlanga is the Founder and CEO of SabiNano (Pty) Ltd since 1 June 2018, a company he founded in 2008 with one of the company directors. He holds a PhD in Chemistry with focus on carbon nanomaterials from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits, 2006) and a certificate in Management of Technology and Innovation (Wits, 2010) amongst other qualifications.…