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: OI 244 and OI 348.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
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: OI 214.
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 214.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-2914-4916
poverty; development; user-experience; computing history

Ms Tania Gill[email protected]
Undergraduate Teaching: SI 144.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-2490-4402
decision-making; social systems

Mrs Mariam Jacobs-Basadien[email protected]
Undergraduate Teaching: OI 318.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-4177-550X
ict4d; artificial intelligence; technology adoption; higher education; ict for health

Dr Christiaan Maasdorp[email protected]
Programme Coordinator KISM and MIKM
Undergraduate Teaching: SI 244.
Postgraduate Teaching: BInfHons and KISM.
Research Profile:
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-9248-4756
knowledge management; knowledge risk; organisational sensemaking

Undergraduate Teaching: SI 348.
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

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 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].