Mr Heystek Grobler is a lecturer at the North-West University (NWU) School for Computer Science and Information Systems as well as an Electronics Engineer and PhD Research Fellow affiliated with the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) which is a facility of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), as well as the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering of the University of Pretoria (UP).
He Specializes in the field of Digital Signal Processing and has Research Interests in Spectroscopy and Radiometry. Mr Grobler is currently a part of the Fundamental Astronomy Department at HartRAO where he is developing a new Spectrometer and Radiometer. He is also a Member of The Collaboration For Astronomy Signal Processing And Electronics Research (CASPER) Group of the University of Berkeley California (UC Berkeley).