This new Cluster will further encourage world class research through collaboration, coordination and communications.
The Earth Science Cluster (ESC), a new Dean’s Select Committee in the Research Office, has been formed following a workshop held earlier this month.
The primary aim of the ESC, situated in the Faculty of Science, is to enhance collaborations, coordination, and communications between the different Earth Sciences entities within the cluster, especially in research, innovation, postgraduate training, teaching, science engagement and public outreach.
The Earth Sciences at Wits does outstanding research and is currently made up of six A-rated researchers, two SARCHI Chairs, two Wits Distinguished Professors, the PV Tobias Chair in Palaeoanthropology, and two Centres of Excellence. There are more than half a dozen research entities located in this cluster, as designated by the Research Office, and some of the researchers are amongst the most highly cited in the University if not the world.