Thokozani Majozi

Thokozani Majozi (born 3 October 1972) is a South African chemical engineer. He has been the Dean of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand since 2021. He holds the South African Research Chair in Sustainable Process Engineering at the same university. His research focuses on chemical process engineering, particularly batch chemical process integration.

Majozi joined the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering as a professor in 2013. Before that he worked at the University of Pretoria from 2004 to 2013 and at the University of Pannonia from 2005 to 2009.

Early life and education Majozi was born in 1972 in KwaMashu in present-day KwaZulu-Natal. His mother was a teacher and his father was a post office clerk. He attended Mqhawe High School in nearby Inanda,

In 1994, as dictated by his bursary obligations, he began his professional career as a junior process engineer at Unilever. While at Dow he met Professor Chris Buckley of the University of Natal's Pollution Research Group, who suggested that Majozi should return to the university for postgraduate study; under Buckley's supervision, he completed an MScEng in 1998.

On 23 September 2021, the Wits Council approved Majozi's appointment to a five-year term as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. He succeeded Professor Ian Jandrell in that position.

Scholarship and research Majozi's main research interest is batch chemical process integration. He also received the University of Pretoria's Leading Minds Centenary Award in 2008, the S2A3 British Association Silver Medal in 2008, the National Research Foundation's President Award in 2007 and 2009, and the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers Bill Neal-May Gold Award in 2010. He received the award in Bronze for:His outstanding contribution to science, particularly the development of a novel mathematical technique for near-zero-effluent batch chemical facilities which enables the reuse of wastewater; as a young scientist, more trailblazing is expected of him in the years ahead. and he is a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, the South African Academy of Engineering, the Water Institute of Southern Africa, and the Institution of Chemical Engineers.