Dr. Anna Bosman receives NRF Y1 rating and Associate Professor title

As of 1 January 2026, Dr. Anna Bosman, the leader of CIRG, upgraded her title from Dr. to Prof. by being promoted to the Associate Professor post. Leading up to it, Prof. Bosman received the prestigious Y1 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF), active from 2025 to 2030.

NRF provides the following description of the Y1 rating: A young researcher (within 5 years from PhD) who is recognised by all or the overriding majority of reviewers as having the potential to establish her/himself as a researcher of considerable international standing on the basis of the quality and impact of her/his recent research outputs.