#Azwinndini Muronga - President of the South African Institute of Physics

Dr. Azwinndini Muronga is a distinguished alumnus of the School of Physics and Astronomy, earning his doctorate in Physics in 2002. He is acknowledged as the voice of science in rural and disadvantaged areas of South Africa.Dr. Muronga has made outstanding contributions to theoretical physics. His thesis work on casual second order viscous relativistic fluid dynamics was seminal; it has been cited more than 600 times and is now incorporated in large state-of-the-art computer codes written around the world to model collisions between nuclei and high energy. His work has been integrated in experiments done in various locations from Long Island to Geneva at facilities at the billion dollar to ten billion dollar levels. Dr. Muronga is considered one of the leading scientists in the relativistic treatment of viscosity.