Head of Department
Biotechnology and Food Technology
Durban University of Technology
South Africa
Professor Kugen Permaul, a Professor in the DUT Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.Prof Permaul is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C-rated researcher. He obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of KwaZulu Natal. His early research projects focused on bacterial molecular genetics, especially plasmid biology. He graduated with a PhD in 1999 and spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow before being employed as a lecturer at DUT in 2000.