Title: Professor

Irvy (Igle) Gledhill holds a BSc and BSc (Hons) from Rhodes University and a PhD in plasma physics from the University of Natal, South Africa. She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of California, Los Angeles, on plasma physics, and at Stanford University on Space Shuttle physics.

For 30 years, she specialised in transonic computational fluid dynamics in aeronautics at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa.