• Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (31 October, 2024)

• The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (OMT) Awards for Postgraduate, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Level (30 September, 2024)

• WITS Postgraduate Merit Award for Master’s, or PhD

• WITS Postgraduate Funding Portal

• WITS  Scholarships and Bursaries

• Government Bursaries South Africa

Opportunities are available for MSc/MEng and PhD , interested students may drop an email.

International students need to start the application process in much advance considering the time required by SAQA for evaluating the foreign qualifications.

• Focused areas of Research

  • Seismic Hazard, Earthquake catalogue processing, Seismicity, Historical Seismicity

  • Mine Tailings failures

  • Mine Tailings and Fly ash dams characterization and stability

  • Liquefaction Modelling

  • Mine Backfilling, Slope stability, Shallow and Deep Foundations

  • Earthquake Catalogue Studies

  • Ground Motion Prediction (AI/ML/DL)

  • Ground Response Analysis

  • Geosynthetics