Details of authors Stephanie G Burton B Sc (Hons) Graduate Sue Harrison B Sc (Hons)(Microbiology) PhD Certificate in Education (University of Rhodesia) (Chemical Engineering) MSc PhD (Rhodes University) MASSAf, MSCI, FSAAE, FWISA, FSAIMM, Vice-Principal, University of Pretoria, Private Bag MSASM, MSAIChE, MIWA X20, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0028 Director of the Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Tel: +27 12 420-2970 Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, Fax: +27 12 420-3696 University of Cape Town, South Africa E-mail:
[email protected] Tel: +27 21 650 4021 Professor Stephanie Burton holds an MSc in E-mail:
[email protected] Organic Chemistry (1990) and a PhD in Prof. Sue Harrison holds the SARChI Research Biochemistry (1994) from Rhodes University. Chair in Bioprocess Engineering at the University of Professor Burton has lectured in Biochemistry and Cape Town. She is Deputy Dean (Postgraduate and Biotechnology at Rhodes University, and then Research) in the Faculty of Engineering and the Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Built Environment, and Director of the Centre for Town. In 2009, she was appointed Director of Bioprocess Engineering Research (CeBER) in the Postgraduate Studies at Cape Peninsula University Department of Chemical Engineering at UCT. She of Technology. Professor Burton took up her pres- has over twenty years’ experience in industrial and ent position as Vice-Principal: Research and academic research, and in university teaching. This Postgraduate Education at the University of time has resulted in nearly 100 co-authored Pretoria, in 2011. Her research interests are in the research papers in refereed journals and books, 80 field of applied biochemistry and biotechnology, international conference presentations, and super- including biocatalysis, bioremediation and benefici- vision of almost 60 postgraduate students to com- ation of industrial wastes.