Natasha Potgieter Executive Dean: Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture. Prof Natasha Potgieter is currently the Executive Dean of Faculty Research Committee in the newly established Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture. Prof Natasha Potgieter joined the University of Venda as a lecturer in 1997 in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology in the former School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. She was appointed as the Head of the Department of Microbiology in 2012. In 2014, she was appointed as the Dean of the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, and she held this position till the merging of the former Schools to Faculties in January 2021. From April 2022 to December 2022, she held the position of the Interim Deputy Dean: Research and Postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture. Prof Potgieter has a Doctoral degree in Medical Virology from the University of Pretoria, and she is a C2 NRF-rated researcher. Prof Potgieter has established a focus research group on ONE HEALTH, which conducts research on all aspects of one health from water quality, sanitation and hygiene aspects, the role of infectious diseases in the transmission of diarrheal diseases related to water/sanitation/hygiene problems, antimicrobial resistance surveillance, and treatment options with plant extracts.