Prof Cornelia G. C. E. van Sittert received her PhD in Chemistry in 1999 from the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa. In 2004 she received a second MSc degree, namely MSc in Molecular Modelling, from Cardiff University in Wales, United Kingdom. She has been promoted to Professor (2023) in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, subject group Chemistry at North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa. Prof van Sittert is the group leader of the Laboratory for Applied Molecular Modelling within the Research Focus Area, Chemical Resource Beneficiation, at North-West University. Her current research interests centre on the molecular modelling of catalysis. She has published 53 papers in academic journals and has presented her work at both national and international conferences. She delivered 18 MSc and 6 PhD students. She served as chair of the annual CATSA conference for 2018, the local organiser of the Closing Conference Programme ESRC/NRF-funded Newton Project for UK-RSA PhD Exchanges (2019), local organiser of the annual UK-RSA conference (started in 2022), and was one of the North-West University representatives on the management committee of Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy. She serves as chair of the special interest group for Computational Chemistry at the Centre for High-Performance Computing, chair of the Molecular Modelling Division of the South African Chemical Institute, subject editor for Molecular Modelling papers in the South-African Journal of Chemistry (2017 – 2019), editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of Chemistry (2020 – 2022), media officer of the Catalysis Society of South Africa (CATSA) (2015-2019) and chair of the Catalysis Society of South Africa (CATSA) (Nov 2019- Nov 2021).

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