Aluwani Nengovhela
Aluwani Nengovhela obtained her professional degree BSc (Environmental Management) and MSc (Environmental Sciences) at the University of Venda.
In 2019, she obtained her joint PhD degree in Zoology from the University of Venda and the University of Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, France. Her thesis title was: 3D Cranial Morphometry, Sensory Ecology and Climate Change in African Rodents.
Aluwani joined the National Museum on 1 September 2021 as a Museum Scientist and Collections Manager in the Department of Mammalogy.
Her research interest focuses on better understanding rodent brain and inner ear morphology, using state of the art 3D geometric morphometric approaches. She is also interested in rodent ecology, particularly on the effect that global climate change may have.