Education

Degrees

Year Degree Institution
2019 Ph.D (Mathematical Statistics) Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, SA
2013 MSc (Mathematical Statistics) University of the Freestate, Bloemfontein, South Africa, SA
2011 Bsc (hons) (Mathematical Statistics) University of the Freestate, Bloemfontein, South Africa, SA
2010 BSc (Mathematical Statistics) University of the Freestate, Bloemfontein, South Africa, SA
2007 Matric: Senior certificate C & N Oranje Meisieskool, Bloemfontein, South Africa, SA

Positions

Year Position Institution
Jan 2025 - current Senior Lecturer Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024 Lecturer Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
July 2015 - Nov 2020 Lecturer Department of Genetics
July 2013 - June 2015 Junior Lecturer Department of Genetics
Jan 2012 - June 2012 Research Assistant Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science

Awards

  • Helga and Wolfgang Gaul Stiftung Award (2017). This award is given biannually to a young researcher (\(<\) 30 years) with high potential working in the area of Classification, Clustering and related topics. The award is presented by the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS).
  • Crouch Joy Varney-Blackburn award for the best oral presentation in occupational therapy, psychiatry and mental health at the OTASA Congress 2024. Title: The impact of early referral on milestone development of babies with Down Syndrome at the Bloemfontein Child Information Centre. Authors: Dorothy Russell, Olive Khaliq & Johané Nienkemper-Swanepoel.
  • First prize in the postgraduate oral presentation competition of SASA in 2019. Title: Extended applications of GPAbin biplots.
  • First prize in the postgraduate paper competition of SASA in 2017 and 2014. Title: Exploratory study for the visualisation of incomplete multivariate categorical data (2017). Title: Multiple imputation using regularised iterative multiple correspondence analysis (2014).
  • Recipient of the Dean’s medal for the best honours degree student in the faculty of Natural and Agricultural sciences in 2012 at the University of the Free State.
  • Recipient of the Senate medal for the best honours degree student at the University of the Free State in 2012.

Visits

Dates Institution Country Host
19 - 29 May 2025 Monash University Australia Prof. Di Cook