Dr Lulu van Rooyen (née Pretorius) holds a PhD in Environmental Science. She has worked as an Environmental and Ecological Consultant, for consultants and in a freelance capacity.
Since 2012 she has been a Director and Board Member of a small NGO called the Centre for Wetland Research and Training (WetResT), through which she partakes in research projects, student training, capacity building activities, and acting in an advisory capacity for stakeholders from all spheres, on a part-time basis.
Between 2012 and 2015 she acted as a Research Coordinator on a German-South African collaborative research project on peatlands in South Africa. Thereafter she took up a post-doc position as part of the Durban Research Action Partnership (D’RAP), as an Embedded Researcher in the eThekwini Municipality; where she worked on integrating climate information into decision-making.
Currently, she holds a Post-doc position at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) while working on a project on climate adaptation and water resource management. She is South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP) registered; belongs to various professional bodies and is the current Chair of the South African Wetland Society.
