Tania Douglas holds the South African Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Innovation at the University of Cape Town. She completed degrees in electrical/electronic and biomedical engineering at the University of Cape Town, Vanderbilt University and the University of Strathclyde, and conducted postdoctoral research in image processing at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. She also completed an executive MBA at the University of Cape Town. She has been a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London, and a visiting Professor at Kenyatta University. Professor Douglas is a fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa