People

Hanlie Grobbelaar (B.IS HED LLB) is a qualified attorney, conveyancer, and notary public of the High Court of South Africa. She has over 8 years' experience as a property attorney. Previously, Hanlie was a director at a prominent real estate firm in Pretoria with over 15 years' experience in the real estate industry. She further holds an information sciences degree in publishing.

University of South Africa LLB
University of Pretoria HED (Postgraduate)
University of Pretoria B.IS

Law Society of South Africa award for best overall performance at Law School.
Law Society of South Africa award for best conveyancing practice and business enterprises candidate.
The DJ Friedland prize for conveyancing in the Northern Provinces.

High Court of South Africa Admitted Attorney.
High Court of South Africa Admitted Conveyancer.
High Court of South Africa Admitted Notary Public.

E-mail at Hanlie Grobbelaar

Stefan Grobbelaar (B.Eng M.Eng LLB Patent Attorney) is a qualified electronic engineer, attorney of the High Court, and registered patent attorney. He has over 16 years' experience in patents. Previously, Stefan studied at the Institut für Computertechnik at Vienna University of Technology and has published peer­ reviewed papers in Europe and North America with the Canada Research Chair in Information Technology.

University of South Africa LLB
Dissertation: South African Software Patents in light of European and American trends.

University of Pretoria M.Eng (Computer Engineering)
Specialisation: Advanced computer networks and information security.

University of Pretoria B.Eng (Electronic Engineering)
Dissertation: Implementing the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada Research assistantship.
TU Wien Institute for Computer Technology scholarship.
Fluor Daniel South Africa engineering scholarship.

Patent Examination Board Registered Patent Attorney 2013.
High Court of South Africa Admitted Attorney.

Publications:

Stefan Grobbelaar and Sara S Grobbelaar, South African Energy Technologies Within Reach, Intellectual Property Management Magazine, 2013.

Stefan Grobbelaar and Mihaela Ulieru, Complex Networks as Control Paradigm for Complex Systems, Position Paper at the 1st IEEE International Workshop on eNetworks Cyber engineering, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Conference, October 7 - 10, 2007, Montreal, Canada.

Mihaela Ulieru and Stefan Grobbelaar, Engineering Industrial Ecosystems in a Networked World, Keynote Paper at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, July 23-29, 2007, Vienna, Austria.

Mihaela Ulieru and Stefan Grobbelaar, Holonic Stigmergy as a Mechanism for Engineering Self-Organizing Applications, Proceedings of ICINCO 2006 - 3rd International Conference of Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, August 1-5, 2006, Setubal, Portugal.

E-mail at Stefan Grobbelaar