The 2019 Oppenheimer memorial Trust Award, The 2019 SASLHA fellowship Award, University of Western Australia University of Texas Dallas De Wet Swanepoel is a South African professor of Communication Pathology at the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology University of Pretoria and a Senior Researcher at the Ear Science Institute Australia.
[1] He started his career as a senior research fellow, in Ear Science Institute Australia.
He moved to School of Surgery, University of Western Australia and became an adjunct associate professor.
He joined the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, University of Texas Dallas as an adjunct professor.
In 2020, he received the African Academy of Science Olusegun Obasanjo Prize for Scientific Breakthrough and/or Technological Innovation.