Dr Avnish Bhowan Magan is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics. He is the founder and director of the Computational Modelling in Physiology and Medicine (COMPASS) Research Group, an interdisciplinary research group that develops mathematical and computational models for problems in physiology and medicine. His research lies at the interface of applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, machine learning, and computational modelling. His work includes the analysis of non-Newtonian jet flows and transport phenomena with biomedical applications such as intranasal drug delivery, alongside research in respiratory disease prediction using machine learning, data-driven constitutive modelling of lung tissue, bacteriophage therapy for tuberculosis, digital twins, and computational models of respiratory physiology.