Fellow William Bond elected to NAS

William Bond FRSSAf, the Harry Bolus Professor of Botany in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been elected as a foreign associate of the United States’ National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.

Bond, an A-rated researcher with South Africa’s National Research Foundation, is an ecologist with an interest in the processes that control large-scale vegetation, is the fifth African scientist to have been elected to the academy. The NAS is an independent body of approximately 2 200 members and 400 foreign associates. Nearly 200 members of this prestigious body are Nobel laureates. Bond and his colleagues in South Africa and elsewhere have shown that wildfires are a major force in shaping global vegetation – and have been for many millions of years.   For the full story go to UCT’s Monpaper

Thank you to UCT for the photograph