South Africa is able to appoint up ten Principal Investigators (PIs), six of whom have already been appointed. New South African PI opportunities will be offered competitively in the next year or so.
| PI | Institution | Program Title |
|---|---|---|
| David Buckley | SAAO | Observing the Transient Universe with the Rubin Observatory LSST |
| Matt Hilton | Wits/UKZN | Tracing the evolution of galaxy clusters using Rubin Observatory and radio surveys |
| Michelle Lochner | UWC/SARAO | Unlocking LSST-SKA Synergies with Machine Intelligence |
| Yin-Zhe Ma | US | Probing Cosmic Structure Formation with Rubin Observatory and multi-wavelength surveys |
| Kavilan Moodley | UKZN | Synergistic cosmology with Rubin-LSST and HIRAX |
| Kshitij Thorat | UP | Next-generation multi-wavelength astrophysics in the Southern Sky |