Naledi Chere (left) hails from KwaZulu-Natal, and, now en route to GFZ-Potsdam, Germany's Helmholtz Research Centre for Geosciences.  She is presently an NNMU MSc-research student and a UCT Hons-graduate.  Naledi will be hosted for 8 months by the geochemistry section of GFZ, under mentorship of Dr Hans-Martin Schultz, a world expert on gas shales.  Naledi will be working on collected Karoo samples for her thesis project on Karoo shales.

Thomas Muedi (right) from Limpopo, an NMMU MSc-research student and a University of Venda Hons-graduate wil too, leave for the  Karlsruhe Institute of Technoloy (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany.  thomas will be hosted for a period of 4 months at the Institute of Applied Geosciences under mentorship of Prof Reinhard Greiling, an world expert in tectonics.  Thomas will be analyzing remote sensing data for his research project on Namibian dyke swarms, using computational facilities at KIT.

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