Associate Professor Bob Osano

Associate Professor Bob Osano is a researcher in astrophysics, cosmology, applied mathematics and mathematics education. He is passionate about broadening access to higher education for previously disadvantaged students and is keen on creating alternative pathways to achieve this.  

Associate Professor Osano has served as a head of the Science ADP unit, an acting director of the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (UCT), and a coordinator of MSc and PhD in Applied Mathematics in the Mathematics and Applied Mathematics department (UCT).  

He is the former chair of the CHED faculty research committee and CHED’s representative to the University Research Committee. He has published on the generation and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields, cosmological perturbation theory, dynamical systems, and mathematics education Furthermore, he contributes his expertise to the academic community by serving on the review panels of several national and international research journals and has been involved in the review panel of numerous UCT research groups.