Mpho Mafata is an applied data scientist. She previously worked as a health and clinical data scientist at the University of Tuebingen (2025), post-doctoral research fellow at the South African Grape and Wine Research Institute (SAGWRI) and the Stellenbosch University School for Data Science and Computational Thinking (2021). She completed her undergraduate degree and honours in Chemistry at the University of Cape town (2013), followed by a masters in Wine Biotechnology at Stellenbosch university (2017). She completed her doctoral dissertation at the same university in 2021. Her current research is in the applications of Data Science in the fields: Analytical Chemistry, Biotechnology, Sensory evaluation, Oenology, and clinical data.