 She serves on the South African ICS Committee for the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and was the National Alternate Delegate to the recent SCAR Delegates meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the South African representative to SCAR Life Sciences, and also the South African representative and co-Chair of a SCAR Action Group (focused on integrated sciences for the sub-Antarctic).Van Vuuren is an official South African delegate to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the Vice-Chair of the Standing Scientific Group on Life Sciences since 2010 and South African representative on for the Action Group on Integrated Science for the Sub-Antarctic.She is recognized nationally and internationally and attained leadership positions in academia and science outside a university setting (President