I am the eldest of three children. I completed a B Sc with majors in chemistry and mathematicsin 1992 and went on to do a B Sc Hons in Chemistry and an M Sc in Organometallic synthesis. In 1995 I started my career as analytical chemist with Impala Platinum laboratories and joined the CSIR National Metrology Laboratory as their first chemist in 1997. I was involved with the establishment of the chemical metrology facility and has been the group leader of the gas metrology laboratory for the past six years. In January 2004 I registered for my Ph D studies in ICP- magnetic sector mass spectrometry for the re-certification of the South African Reference Materials (SARMs). I am the wife of an entrepreneur businessman and the mother of two girls aged five and three, respectively. I love reading, sewing and cross stitch, as well as beating my husband at table tennis.
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