Research and innovation
UCT is focused on unleashing knowledge and innovative research in and from Afrika to redefine and co-create a sustainable global future.
Research strengths
- Astronomy, cosmology and gravity
- Biodiversity
- Catalysis: accelerating chemical change
- Climate and development
- Data-intensive research
- Democracy, public policy and citizenship in Africa
- Drug discovery
- Future water
- High-energy physics
- Human-wildlife conflict
- Infectious diseases and molecular medicine
- Marine research
- Mineral beneficiation
- Neurosciences
- Poverty and inequality
- Preserving our African heritage
- Safety and violence
- Schools
- Urban Africa
