Stadio appoints Prof Herman Vermaak as new head of engineering school

JSE-listed higher education provider Stadio has announced the appointment of Prof Herman Vermaak as its new head of school for the Stadio School of Engineering and Architecture, where creativity and technical expertise converge to shape the future of the physical and virtual built environments.

Prof Vermaak holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, a master’s diploma in electrical engineering from Nelson Mandela University (PE Technikon), and is a Professional Registered Engineer and Technologist with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). He also serves as a senior member of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and has been a National Research Foundation-rated researcher since 2018. In 2018, he was awarded the DAAD Visiting Professor Scholarship at Ulm, University of Applied Sciences, Germany.