Sphesihle MAKHATHINI
Expert in Radio Astronomy and Data Processing
About Me
Sphesihle Makhathini is a research scientist specializing in radio astronomy and data processing. After completing his Ph.D. in Radio Astronomy from Rhodes University in 2017, he worked as a Data Scientist at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO). He has made significant contributions to radio astronomy through his work on algorithms and software for radio interferometry data processing and synthesis. His research interests include electromagnetic afterglow of transient radio sources and the astrophysics of radio galaxies and galaxy clusters. He was part of the team that developed the Caracal software pipeline for processing MeerKAT telescope data