Roger Deane is the Director of the Wits Centre for Astrophysics at the Unversity of the Witwatersrand. He holds the DSI/NRF SKA Chair in Radio Astronomy and serves as Chair of the Digital Dome Working Group. He completed his doctorate in 2012 at the University of Oxford, and postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Cape Town and Rhodes. In 2018 he moved to the University of Pretoria where he established the Radio Astronomy Research Group and now holds an Extraordinary Professorship. His research interests cover a broad range of energy and spatial scales, from diffuse hydrogen reservoirs in distant galaxies to binary supermassive black holes, using the power of next-generation radio telescopes such as South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array, and Very Long Baseline Interferometers, like the Event Horizon Telescope.