Professor Daya Reddy has been elected as president of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), a voluntary association of eminent South African scholars and scientists seeking to advance science in the country.
Professor Reddy, who holds the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Computational Mechanics in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, was inaugurated as the president of the post late in 2012 and will hold it until 2016.
At ASSAf, he says he hopes to build on ”the very solid foundation established by my predecessors”. That will involve expanding the academy’s international role, tackling substantive issues with kindred academies in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. Another area he wants to expand is in relation to the academy’s core mandate of providing evidence-based policy advice to government and other institutions, a commission in which Professor Reddy would like to see more ASSAf members involved.
In 2013, Professor Reddy also won the Georg Foster Research Award, worth €60 000, from the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
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