Leslie Petrik

Prof Leslie Petrik has independently developed and led the Environmental and Nano Sciences research group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of the Western Cape, being grant holder and principle investigator of industrial and agency research projects with many successfully completed local and international research contracts. Prof Petrik is regarded as a leading and well-established expert in chemistry, with a focus on material science including nanotechnology, and a further focus on environmental remediation and water treatment and is considered to be amongst the top 3% of scientists globally according to her last 6 years i10 Index and citations (Adscientific index). Prof Petrik was recipient of the Water Legends Award of the Water Research Commission of South Africa in 2021, and won the National Science and Technology Forum NSTF-South32 award in 2018 for an outstanding contribution to science, engineering, technology (SET) and innovation