Nithaya Chetty
Dean of Science
Nithaya Chetty, PhD, is dean of science at the University of the Witwatersrand
Nithaya Chetty, PhD, is dean of science at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a theoretical and computational solid state and condensed matter physicist. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he completed his PhD in 1990. He currently serves as vice president of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), responsible for membership matters, and also serves as the chair of the IUPAP Working Group on Physics and the Green Economy.