The National Research Foundation's (NRF) rating system is central to its goal of building a globally competitive science system in South Africa. 

B-rated researchers are those who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality and impact of their recent research.

C-rated researchers are regarded as established researchers with a sustained recent record of productivity in their field.

Y-rated researchers are 40 years of age or younger, who have held a doctorate or equivalent qualification for five years at the time of application, and who are recognised as having the potential to establish themselves within a five-year period of the evaluation.

For more information on the NRF ratings, visit the NRF website.

Centre for Higher Education Development

  • Adams, Sabirah
  • Archer, Arlene
  • Bangeni, Abongiwe
  • Cox, Glenda
  • Gachago, Daniela
  • Le Roux, Catherine
  • Mhakure, Duncan
  • Taylor, Dale

Faculty of Commerce

  • Alhassan, Abdul Latif
  • Bhorat, Haroon
  • Bick, Geoff
  • Brown, Irwin
  • Budree, Adeesh
  • Charteris, Allie
  • Chigona, Wallace
  • Conradie, Beatrice
  • de Jager, Phillip
  • Ferreira, Caitlin
  • Huang, Chun-Sung
  • Gossel, Sean
  • Jaga, Ameeta
  • Kabanda, Salah
  • Kerr, Andrew
  • Kotze, Kevin
  • Kyobe, Michael
  • Leibbrandt, Murray
  • Luiz, John
  • Madinga, Nkosivile
  • Maughan-Brown, Brendan
  • Meyer, Ines
  • Ngwenyama, Ojelanki
  • Nikolaidou, Eftychia
  • Musango, Josephine
  • Olalere, Oluwaseyi
  • Ophoff, Jacques
  • Parker, Hamieda
  • Rivett, Ulrike
  • Ronnie, Linda
  • Samuelsson, Mikael
  • Sarr, Mare
  • Seymour, Lisa
  • Tanner, Maureen
  • Van Belle, Jean-Paul
  • Van Rensburg, Paul
  • Van Walbeek, Corne
  • Willows, Gizelle
  • Winkler, Harald 

Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment

  • Alexander, Mark
  • Barendse, Paul
  • Bello-Ochende, Tunde
  • Beushausen, Hans
  • Boje, Edward
  • Bowen, Paul
  • Broadhurst, Jennifer
  • Brown-Luthango, Mercy
  • Chung Kim Yuen, Steeve
  • Cohen, Brett
  • Cole, Megan
  • Corin, Kirsten
  • Fagan-Endres, Marijke
  • Falowo, Olabisi
  • Fischer, Nico
  • Folly, Komla
  • Isafiade, Adeniyi
  • Kloot, Bruce
  • Kooyman, Patricia
  • Kuppuswamy, Ramesh
  • Langdon, Genevieve
  • Levecque, Pieter
  • Lewis, Alison
  • Mainza, Aubrey
  • Malan, Arnaud
  • Moghayedi, Alireza
  • Mwangama, Joyce
  • Mooya, Manya
  • Ngoepe, Malebogo
  • Odendaal, Nancy
  • Odera, Patroba
  • Ontong, Krystle
  • Patel, Amir
  • Petersen, Jochen
  • Pillay, Pragasen
  • Shoko, Moreblessings
  • Sitas, Rike
  • Skatulla, Sebastian
  • Tucker, Andrew
  • Vanderschuren, Marianne
  • Van Steen, Eric
  • Von Blottnitz, Harro
  • Whittal, Jennifer
  • Windapo, Abimbola
  • Zuidgeest, Marcus
  • Winkler, Tanja

Faculty of Health Sciences

  • Albertus, Yumna
  • Amponsah-Dacosta, Edina
  • Ataguba, John
  • Barnes, Karen
  • Bhagwandin, Adhil
  • Biccard, Bruce
  • Blackburn, Jonathan
  • Blom, Dirk
  • Bosch, Andrew
  • Brombacher, Frank
  • Cohen, Karen
  • Collins, Malcolm
  • Colvin, Chris
  • Constant, Deborah
  • Dalvie, Aqiel
  • Dalvie, Shareefa
  • Dandara, Collet
  • Davies, Neil
  • Dawson-Sqibb, John-Joe
  • De Vries, Petrus
  • de Vries, Jantina
  • Delobelle, Peter
  • Denti, Paolo
  • Dippenaar, Enrico
  • Donald, Kirsty
  • Dyer, Robert
  • Dzanibe, Sonwabile
  • Figaji, Anthony
  • Franz, Thomas
  • Friedling, Jacqui
  • Galvaan, Roshan
  • Gibbon, Victoria
  • Gray, Diane
  • Gray, Clive
  • Green, Lesley
  • Hadebe, Sabelo
  • Guler, Reto
  • Gwanyanya, Asfree
  • Heckmann, Jeannine
  • Hlela, Carol
  • Hockman, Dorit
  • Horsnell, William
  • Hsu, Nai-Jen
  • Jacobs, Muazzam
  • Jeebhay, Mohamed
  • Kassanjee, Reshma
  • Kathard, Harsha
  • Koen, Nastassja
  • Laguette, Nancy
  • Lambert, Vicki
  • Lang, Dirk
  • Langerak, Nelleke
  • Lazarus, John
  • Lecour, Sandrine
  • Levin, Michael
  • London, Leslie
  • Luabeya, Angelique Kany
  • Madden, Victoria
  • Marais, Suzaan
  • Maswime, Salome
  • Matzopoulos, Richard
  • Mckenzie, Judith
  • Meintjes, Graeme
  • Meintjes, Ernesta
  • Morrow, Brenda
  • Mowla, Shaheen
  • Mtintsilana, Asanda
  • Mutsvangwa, Tinashe
  • Navsaria, Pradeep
  • Ndlovu, Hlumani
  • Okpechi, Ikechi
  • Oluwole, Oluwafemi
  • Oputu, Ogheneochuko
  • Orrell, Catherine
  • Parihar, Suraj
  • Parker, Romy
  • Pascoe, Michelle
  • Prince, Sharon
  • Rabie, Stephan
  • Rae, Dale
  • Rambharose, Sanjeev
  • Ramma, Lebogang
  • Rauch, Laurie
  • Rayner, Brian
  • Rohlwink, Ursula
  • Roovers, Jan-Paul
  • Ross, Ian
  • Saunders, Colleen
  • Scott, Christiaan
  • Schäfer, Georgia
  • Seebregts, Chris
  • Senekal, Marjanne
  • September, Alison
  • Shamley, Delva
  • Shey, Muki Shehu
  • Sinxadi, Phumla
  • Sliwa-Hahnle, Karen
  • Stassen, Willem
  • Steyn, Nelia
  • Swart, Jeroen
  • Thomford, Nicholas
  • Vanker, Aneesa
  • Van Wyk, Jacqueline (Jacky)
  • Van Zyl-Smit, Richard
  • Von Pressentin, Klaus
  • Wiesner, Joachim Lubbe
  • Williamson, Anna-Lise
  • Wilmshurst, Jo
  • Yssel, Ansie
  • Zilla, Peter
  • Zühlke, Liesl

Faculty of Humanities

  • Adhikari, Mohamed
  • Arnold, Markus
  • Boonzaier, Floretta
  • Bosch, Tanja
  • Bruinders, Sylvia
  • Brundrit, Jean
  • Burger, Barbara
  • Butler, Anthony
  • Cochrane, Jim
  • Cooper, Linda
  • Coovadia, Imraan
  • Cornille, Jean-Louis
  • Crankshaw, Owen
  • Dessi, Ugo
  • Evans, Martha
  • Hamilton, Carolyn
  • Hardman, Joanne
  • Hattingh, Annemarie
  • Haupt, Adam
  • Hoadley, Ursula
  • Hull, George
  • Ismail, Salma
  • Josephy, Svea
  • Kaminer, Debbie
  • Kelly, Jane
  • Lipinska, Malgorzata
  • Long, Wahbie
  • Louw, Johann
  • Luckett, Kathy
  • Makhubu, Nomusa
  • Masango, Charles
  • Mattes, Robert
  • McKinney, Carolyn
  • Moore, Elena
  • Morreira, Shannon
  • Morrell, Robert
  • Muller, Johan
  • Murris, Karin
  • Ndlovu, Musawenkozi
  • Ng'ambi, Dick
  • Nyamnjoh, Francis
  • Ouma, Christopher
  • Pentecost, Michelle
  • Porcu, Elisabetta
  • Prinsloo, Mastin
  • Raju, Jayarani
  • Raju, Reggie (Rajandren)
  • Ross, Fiona
  • Rossi, Michael
  • Sandmeier, Rebekka
  • Saunders, Chris
  • Schrieff-Brown, Leigh
  • Shaikh, Sa'diyya
  • Shain, Milton
  • Shongwe, Mzwandile Muzi
  • Tayob, Abdulkader
  • Toska, Elona
  • Tredoux, Colin
  • van der Schijff, Johann
  • Ward, Catherine
  • Wardle, David
  • Wild, Lauren
  • Young, Sandra

Faculty of Law

  • Amien, Waheeda
  • Barnard-Naude, Jaco
  • Boonzaier, Leo
  • Corder, Hugh
  • De Vos, Pierre
  • Du Toit, Francois
  • Glazewski, Jan
  • Louw, Michelle
  • Mostert, Hanri
  • Murcott, Melanie
  • Ncube, Caroline
  • Ordor, Ada
  • Osman, Fatima
  • Titus, Afton
  • Woolaver, Hannah

Faculty of Science

  • Abiodun, Babatunde
  • Altieri, Katye
  • Altwegg, Res
  • Amar, Arjun
  • Anderson, Pippin
  • Attwood, Colin
  • Blyth, Sarah
  • Bolton, John
  • Bordy, Emese
  • Bourne, Susan
  • Bruyns, Peter
  • Caira, Mino
  • Carignan, Claude
  • Casini, Giovanni
  • Chavula, Josiah
  • Chimphango, Samson
  • Chirikure, Shadreck
  • Cole, Katie
  • Crespo, Olivier
  • Cunningham, Susan
  • Daya, Shari
  • De la Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro
  • De Moor, Carryn
  • Diener, Johann
  • Dietel, Thomas
  • Dominguez, Cesareo
  • Driver, Kathy
  • Dunsby, Peter
  • Eckardt, Frank
  • Erni, Birgit
  • February, Edmund
  • Gain, James
  • Gillson, Lindsey
  • Govender, Romala
  • Gridley, Teresa
  • Groot, Paul
  • Gumedze, Freedom
  • Haines, Linda
  • Hapgood, Janet
  • Harris, Chris
  • Hawkins, HEIDI
  • Hitzeroth, Inga
  • Hoffman, Timm
  • Holden, Petra
  • Howarth, Geoffrey
  • Huggett, Jenny
  • Hunter, Roger
  • Hurdayal, Ramona
  • Hutton, Tanya
  • Illing, Nicola
  • Ingle, Rob
  • Janion-Scheepers, Charlene
  • Jardine, Anwar
  • Keaveney, James
  • Keet, Maria
  • Klak, Cornelia
  • Kuttel, Michelle
  • Le Roux, Petrus
  • Leadbeater, Thomas
  • Lennard, Christopher
  • Luyt, Julie
  • Makhado, Azwianewi Benedict
  • Marais, Patrick
  • Marchetti, Lucia
  • Marco, Heather
  • Meyers, Paul
  • Meyers, Ann
  • Midgley, Jeremy
  • Moloney, Coleen
  • Moodley, Deshendran
  • Muasya, Muthama
  • Nassimbeni, Luigi
  • Nitschke, Geoff
  • Odoulami, Romaric
  • O'Farrell, Patrick
  • Oliver, Clive
  • O'Ryan, Colleen
  • Patel, Zarina
  • Parkington, John
  • Petersen, Wade
  • Peterson, Steve
  • Pillay, Deena
  • Pinto, Izidine
  • Pisano, Daniel Joseph
  • Quiros, Diego
  • Rafudeen, Mohamed Suhail
  • Ramutsindela, Maano
  • Russo, Francesco
  • Schauerte, Anneliese
  • Sealy, Judith
  • Shannon, Lynne
  • Silal, Sheetal Prakash
  • Simpson, Nicholas
  • Singh, Vinayak
  • Skokos, Haris
  • Slingsby, Jasper
  • Sloan, Alastair
  • Smith, Greg
  • Stynder, Deano
  • Suleman, Hussein
  • Taylor, Andrew
  • Vaccari, Mattia
  • Veale, Clinton
  • Verboom, Tony
  • Vichi, Marcello
  • Von Holdt, Johanna
  • Weigert, Heribert
  • Weltman, Amanda
  • West, Adam
  • Wiggins, Harry
  • Wolski, Piotr
  • Woudt, Patrick
  • Wynberg, Rachel
  • Yacoob, Sahal
  • Ziervogel, Gina