Appointed 2025

Jennifer Case is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in the USA, as well as honorary Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. Building on more than two decades of undergraduate teaching and curriculum reform work, she is also a well-regarded researcher in engineering education and higher education.

Her work especially on the student experience of learning as well as on topics around teaching and curriculum, has been widely published and well cited, with over 60 peer-reviewed journal publications and two monographs.  She has served as a co-editor of the SRHE Routledge book series “Research Into Higher Education” and also previously as joint editor-in-chief for the top international journal Higher Education.  She is presently serving as a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS).