We are very excited to welcome Cornel de Jongh to the BERG team. Cornel starts on 3 June 2019. Cornel is an alumnus of BERG receiving his master’s degree back in 2007. Cornel then spent 12 years in the biomedical engineering industry, most notably as biomedical engineering project manager at Leatt Corporation for the last…

Members of the Biomedical Engineering Research Group at Stellenbosch University have developed a novel screening tool for ADHD amongst children. The project team comprises Prof Pieter Fourie, a paediatrician and engineer, and two of his master’s students, Romano Swarts and Hervé Mwamba. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders, distinctly characterised…

Talon Garikayi, a PhD graduate in Mechatronic Engineering, is motivated by a desire to help amputees in Africa. He says: “I grew up in a Zimbabwean village close to the Mozambican border and the woodlands were covered in landmines which were planted during Zimbabwe’s civil war. As a young boy, I witnessed a few of…

Do you have a free will, or not? Is this something you have ever thought about? If your answer is YES, then you are in the company of biomedical engineering researchers at Stellenbosch University who like to ‘grapple’ with this question. The thought-provoking issue regarding the human brain and free will no longer has to…