Education
Degrees
Year | Degree | Institution |
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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 |
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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 |
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19 - 29 May 2025 | Monash University | Australia | Prof. Di Cook |