Dr Chantelle Venter is a Senior Technical Officer in the Department of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University, with extensive expertise in advanced light-, fluorescence- and electron microscopy. She provides technical leadership and training across a wide range of imaging platforms and supports multidisciplinary biomedical research through specialised sample preparation, imaging and quantitative analysis.

Her research focuses on inflammation, coagulation biology and ultrastructural pathology, with particular emphasis on platelet activation, fibrin clot architecture and endothelial dysfunction. In recent years, her work has contributed to improved understanding of hypercoagulability and microclot formation in conditions such as COVID-19, Long COVID and other inflammatory diseases. She is a co-inventor on a registered patent describing a novel method for detecting inflammatory diseases through pathogenic microclots.

Dr Venter has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in international journals. She is actively involved in postgraduate supervision and training and contributes to undergraduate and honours-level teaching in physiology, histology and microscopy.