Zolo Kiala
Postdoctoral Fellow - Water Data Science
Zolo previously worked at Quartex Technologies as a GIS Specialist and Data Manager. He then moved to the University of KwaZulu (South Africa) where he was a Postdoctoral Researcher for the WEF Nexus Tools Project. After that he occupied the position of Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and worked on the Mapping Africa\’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM) project. For this project he was the Field Data Project Manager and developed models from remotely sensed data for mapping archaeological sites.
Current projects
Latest news for Zolo Kiala
Citizen scientists take the lead in tracking Southern Africa’s transboundary river basin
Local monitoring feeds near-real-time water data into the Limpopo Basin Digital Twin, supporting more informed, basin-wide decisions ...
From remote sensing to the field
IWMI researchers are using machine learning to map irrigated areas in the Limpopo River Basin ...
Latest publications by Zolo Kiala
Report
WaterNet sessions feedback report
International Water Management Institute | February 12th, 2026
Poster
Limpopo River Basin digital twin: enabling sustainable water management with the open data cube framework
January 9th, 2026
Report
Limpopo River Basin Digital Twin Open Data Cube Catalog
International Water Management Institute | December 4th, 2024
