Department of Information Science

Stellenbosch University

Staff

Academic Staff

Dr Daniel le Roux[email protected]
Head of Department
Programme Coordinator MA and PhD
Undergraduate Teaching: SI 114.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-9682-0377
Google Scholar
Research Group: Cognition and Technology Research Group
socio-technical systems; human-computer interaction; media multitasking; cognition; attention

Mr Richard Barnett[email protected]
Programme Coordinator BInfHons
Undergraduate Teaching: SI/ISM 254 and SI/ISM 354.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-4133-4587
Google Scholar, DBLP
computational social science; social network analysis; machine learning; data visualisation

Mr Dewald Blaauw[email protected]
Undergraduate Teaching: SI/ISM 212 and SI/ISM 262.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-2188-5931
cyber security and forensics; information systems management and system design; e-learning; e-business and e-commerce

Dr Edward-John Bottomley[email protected]
Undergraduate Teaching: SI 144 and SI/ISM 334.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-2914-4916
poverty; development; user-experience; computing history

Prof Arina Britz[email protected]
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
Research Group: CAIR Computational Thinking for AI Group
logic; computational thinking; knowledge rerpresentation

Ms Tania Gill[email protected]
Undergraduate Teaching: SI/ISM 364.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-2490-4402
decision-making; social systems

Dr Christiaan Maasdorp[email protected]
Programme Coordinator KISM and MIKM
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-9248-4756
knowledge management; knowledge risk; organisational sensemaking

Ms Johanna Metelerkamp[email protected]
Undergraduate Teaching: SI/ISM 254 and SI/ISM 314.
Research Profile:
cognitive control; media multitasking; philosophy of the good life

Undergraduate Teaching: SI/ISM 224.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-6443-3425
Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Research Group: Cognition and Technology Research Group
media psychology; human computer interaction; informatics; meta science

Prof Bruce Watson[email protected]
Capitec Chair of Applied Artificial Intelligence
SACAIR Chair of Computational Thinking for Artificial Intelligence
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-0511-1837
Google Scholar, ResearchGate, DBLP
Research Group: CAIR Computational Thinking for AI Group
algorithm correctness; glass-box artificial intelligence; cyber security and warfare; quantum computing

Extraordinary Staff

Prof Dr-Ing Norbert Gronau
Chair of Business Informatics, Processes and Systems, at Potsdam University, Germany
Teaching Profile:
industry 4.0; digital technologies; knowledge management and business processes

Prof Paul Iske
Chief Failure Officer at Institute of Brilliant Failures, The Netherlands
Professor Open Innovation at Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Teaching Profile:
combinatoric innovation; organisational learning

Prof Johann Kinghorn
Professor Emeritus at The Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making, Stellenbosch University
Teaching Profile:
knowledge economy; organisational sense-making; scenario building and knowledge theory

Prof Meir Russ
Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA
Teaching Profile:
knowledge management strategy; human capital valuation methods; knowledge-based economic development

Prof Dr Gerrit Tamm
Professor of Economics, Computer Science, and Information Systems at SRH University Berlin, Germany
Director Institute of Information Systems at SRH University Berlin, Germany
Teaching Profile:
technology foresight; digital business models

Administrative Staff

Ms Mari Schmidt[email protected]
Senior Departmental Administrator
Enquiries: [email protected].