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Prof Patrick Woudt is currently the interim director of the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA). Prior to this role, he served as interim Dean of the Faculty of Science at University of Cape Town (UCT) for 6 months in 2023. He also served as Head of the Astronomy Department at UCT for 8.5 years (2015-2023) and was the President of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) from 2017 to 2019. He completed his PhD at UCT in 1998, and after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich, Germany, he returned to UCT in 2000, initially as a senior research officer (2000-2004), then senior lecturer (2005-2008), associate professor (2009-2015) and full professor (since 2016). His research interests are centred on the physics of accretion and accretion related outflows in compact stellar binaries (Cataclysmic Variables). He was the co-PI (principal investigator) of one of the eight MeerKAT legacy-style Large Survey Projects (ThunderKAT) and was co chair of the Radio Transients science working group of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) (2021-2025). He has co-authored over 190 peer-reviewed journal articles and has supervised 25 MSc and 13 PhD students in astronomy.

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