Rate My Professor Thato Manamela

Dr Thato Manamela is a SARAO-funded postdoctoral researcher in the Physics Department at the University of Pretoria. He holds a BSc from the University of Limpopo, a BSc Honours in Astrophysics from the University of Cape Town through the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme, and completed his MSc and PhD in Physics at the University of Pretoria, with the PhD awarded following research completed in 2021. His work centres on galaxy evolution in the distant Universe, with a particular focus on hydroxyl megamasers as tracers of extreme star formation and galaxy mergers. He led the discovery of the farthest-known cosmic OH megamaser, detected more than eight billion light-years away using the MeerKAT radio telescope, with findings published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.