• Water and wastewater treatment
• Water quality
• Water security
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Environmental chemistry
• Sustainability
• Waste (water) valorisation and beneficiation
• Environmental engineering
• The main quest is to foster circular economy (CE), zero-liquid emission (ZLE) systems, closed-loop systems (CLS), and waste beneficiation. The premier objective is to inspire circularity, ecological sustainability, and green initiatives in waste(water) treatment using prudent, novel, robust, and pragmatic solutions in the water fraternity

• Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)

• Prof V Masindi - Google Scholar
• Prof V Masindi - Scopus
• Prof V Masindi - ResearchGate

Professional Affiliations:

• Professional Natural Scientist (Environmental Science) - SACNASP - South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions

Awards: 

• Top 2% ranked researcher globally since 2021 to-date
• Emerging Researcher Awards from the CSIR in 2017 (Built Environment)
• Emerging Researcher Awards from the CSIR in 2017 (CSIR as a whole)
• Innovation Award (DSI) and National Intellectual Property Management Office (NIPMO) (2019)
• Emerging Researcher from NSTF (National Science and Technology Forum) (2019)
• SAYAS (2020)
• Several awards within the University of South Africa (UNISA)
• TWAS-SAREP Regional Young Scientists Award-Scientific and Technological Achievement in Engineering Sciences (in 2022)
• The captain of the industry award from Magalies Water (in 2023)
• The National Order of Mapungubwe in Bronze from the President of the Republic of South Africa (in 2023)
• The Water 2024 Young Investigator award from MDPI/Water/Switzerland
• The winner of 2025 Emerging Sustainability Leader Award presented by MDPI Sustainability Foundation and the journal Sustainability

Editorial Positions:

• Subject Editor: Water SA Journal
• Board member: Environmental Science and Technology (ACS)
• Board member: Journal of Earth Critical Zone (Elsevier)
• Board member: Minerals (MDPI)

• Optimisation of water services delivery using fourth industrial revolution (4IR), Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Valorisation of acid mine drainage for the recovery of valuable minerals and reclamations of clean water
• Valorisation of municipal wastewater for the recovery of valuable minerals and reclamations of drinking water
• Development of decentralised water and wastewater treatment for marginalized rural and peri-urban communities
• Bespoke approach for integrated water resource management in selected catchment withing South Africa
• Temporospatial migration of contaminants of emerging concern and plastic pollutants in the catchment, water treatment process and the point of use
• Development of decision support tools and frameworks for water resource management
• Fingerprinting of the impact of different catchment activities on the quality of water in different aquatic compartments