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Where

• Twitter:@ceciliavdm
• Website:http://ceciliavdm.wordpress.com/
• People are also welcome to drop me a mail at cecilia@cecilia.co.za.

Who

Since I was 5 I wanted to be an astronaut, and this led me to study mechanical engineering at the University of Pretoria.

After graduating I worked for about two and a half years at IST Nuclear (which later became Westinghouse Electric South Africa) where I was one of the engineers working on the design of the PBMR Fuel Handling and Storage System.

When I noticed that the future of the PBMR project didn't look too good, I started looking around and was very fortunate to land a position at SKA South Africa.

I have been at SKA South Africa since October 2009, doing many things, but chiefly responsible for proposing and designing the electricity supply network for the SKA telescope and rolling out a trunked radio system to be used by the farming community in the SKA core area.

When I'm not working I enjoy going out with friends to do stuff - from having a braai to going out to concerts or sports games. I enjoy good red wine and my favorite beer is Guinness. When I get the chance I mountain bike a bit, but I'm still very much a beginner. The nerdiest thing about me is that I collect stamps.

SKA

Sometimes I tweet SKA related stuff under the Twitter name @saska_group. Do note that I plan on revamping this Twitter account soon and will probably change the name once we have a decent social media strategy in place.

• SKA South Africa http://www.ska.ac.za/
• International SKA project office http://www.skatelescope.org/

It's also interesting to type in "Square Kilometer Array" into YouTube and to see what you get. The 2010 SKA visualisation video is up there which is worth checking out.