BU Research Blog

Matt and Carol Simon met with Candice Untiedt, a potential PhD student, who travelled to Stellenbosch from Cape Town for the meeting. Candice is working currently at the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town. She already has a suite of expertise, especially in the taxonomy of polychaete worms, which would be key to developing a PhD project jointly supervised by Matt, Carol Simon in Stellenbosch and Andy Mackie at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Candice studied for her BSc and MSc at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban in the Oceanographic Research Institute. After this she worked on the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP II) studying macro-benthic organisms (bottom dwelling invertebrates) in the Natal bight. She has two papers already from her MSc and two more to come.

Candice is passionate about the marine environment and fingers crossed we can find a way to find her PhD research at BU!

Candice Untiedt - a potential PhD student