Ken Nixon is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). His broad research interests and expertise include earthing and lightning protection, high voltage engineering, high performance and quantum computing, as well as information and software engineering. He has been an academic staff member at Wits since 2001 and completed his PhD in lightning research in 2006. In 2015 he spent six months as a Visiting Professor in the Energy and Power Group at the University of Oxford. He was Acting Head of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Wits for four months in 2017. He is a Fellow of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) and a Member of the IEEE. Ken is the author or co-author of more than 50 papers in the areas of High Voltage Engineering, Earthing, Lightning Protection and Industrial EMC, and also has many papers in multidisciplinary fields. To date Ken has supervised one postdoctoral student, and graduated 6 PhD students, 25 research MSc students and 64 honours project students. Between February 2007 and March 2013 Ken served as a member of Council of the SAIEE, and from August 2007 to December 2020 as an elected member of the Wits University Senate. He has served (and still serves) on several University committees. He was the vice-chair of the International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP) hosted by South Africa in 2022. Ken is deeply passionate about science and engineering and has been national chief judge for the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists since 2006. He also works closely with the Wits School of Arts in the Humanities Faculty on the Digital Arts programme. In November 2008 the SAIEE awarded Ken the Keith Plowden Young Achievers Award for his commitment to education at secondary and tertiary levels particularly in electrical engineering.