Noorali Jiwaji
Open University of Tanzania Astronomy Consultant and Researcher
Dr N T Jiwaji is a Senior Lecturer in Physics and an Astronomy consultant for the Open University of Tanzania. He is also the founding member and Chairman of the Astronomy and Space Science Association of Tanzania (ASSAT). He is an experimental Physicist with a Ph D in Environmental Physics in micro-meteorology and instrumentation.
Dr Jiwaji has pioneered the development of Astronomy in Tanzania since 1978 and is the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Education and Outreach Coordinator for Tanzania. His research interests include Dark Skies and Astrotourism and has advocated for the preservation of dark skies in Tanzania to promote Astrotourism as an additional attraction to Tanzania’s popular nature circuits. He is currently working on an international project to attract interest in installation of a Milimeter Radio Telescope on the Saddle area of Mount Kilimanjaro that can provide an easternmost baseline for the radio telescope network of Next Generation Black Hole Telescope, with added attraction of the beauty of the night skies from Kilimanjaro. He is involved in preparing a curriculum for Astrotourguides certification at the Open University of Tanzania.