Local Organising committee:

• Andrew Venter: Chairman
• Mihloti Baloyi: Secretary
• Tshepo Ntsoane
• Deon Marais
• Sheryl van den Berg: Conference organiser

 Program Advisory Committee:

• Anthonie Cilliers: Advanced High Temperature Reactor R&D Lead and Program Manager Nuclear Engineering, School of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, North West University.
  
• Axel Steuwer: Director of Science Support Services at University of Malta, Spain, as well as Adjunct Professor in Materials Engineering, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth.
• Claudia Polese: School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand.
• Daniel Francis: Expert: Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers Sasol Group Technology.
• Daniel Hattingh: Director eNtsa (Centre for Innovation through Engineering) and Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth.
• Esther Akinlabi: Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg.
• Mark Newby: Senior Consultant, Eskom Research, Testing and Development, Sustainability Division.
• Philip Doubel: Corporate Specialist – Materials and Welding, Research Test & Development Dept, Sustainability Group, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.  
• Pieter Pistorius: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Pretoria.
• Sisa Pityana: National Laser Centre, CSIR.  
• Thorsten Becker: Dep. of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Stellenbosch.

 

International Scientific Committee: 

• Alain Lodini (University of Reims, France). 
• Andreas Schreyer (European Spallation Source, Sweden). 
• Andrew Venter (Necsa SOC Ltd, South Africa). 
• Axel Steuwer (University of Malta, Spain). 
• Chedly Braham (PIMM, France). 
• Cevdet Noyan (Columbia University, USA). 
• Wan Chuck Woo (KAERI, South Korea). 
• Daigo Setoyama (Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Japan). 
• Donald Brown (LANL, USA). 
• Hahn Choo (University of Tennessee, USA). 
• Hiroshi Suzuki (JAEA, Japan). 
• Jens Gibmeier (KIT, Germany). 
• Jette Oddershede (FYSIK, Denmark). 
• Jon Almer (APS, USA). 
• Ke An (ORNL, USA). 
• Keisuke Tanaka (Meiji University, Japan). 
• Krzystof Wierzbanowski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland). 
• Lyndon Edwards  (ANSTO, Australia). 
• Mark Bourke (LANL, USA). 
• Mark Daymond (Queen’s University, Canada). 
• Michael Fitzpatrick (Coventry University, UK). 
• Ondrej Muransky (ANSTO, Australia). 
• Petr Lukas (UJF, Czech Republic). 
• Phil Withers (University of Manchester, UK). 
• Ron Rogge (CNL, Canada). 
• Shu Yan Zhang (ISIS, UK). 
• Thilo Pirling (ILL, France). 
• Thomas Buslaps (ESRF, France). 
• Walter Reimers (TU-Berlin, Germany). 
• Xun-Li Wang  (The City University of Hong Kong, China). 
• Yo TOMOTA (Ibaraki University, Japan). 
• Yoshiaki Akiniwa (Yokohama National University, Japan).