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Academic staff

Professor Simon Mukwembi

Head of School | Research interests: Graph theory; distances in graphs, topological indices, applications of graphs in biology and chemistry (drug design), leaf number, irregularity in graphs | simon.mukwembi@wits.ac.za 

Professor Mensah Folly-Gbetoula

Acting Assistant Head of School | Research Interests: Lie analysis of difference equations and differential equations | mensah.folly-gbetoula@wits.ac.za

Senior Lecturer | Research interests: Differential Geometry | jesse.alt@wits.ac.za

Professor Margaret Archibald

Associate Professor | Research interests: Enumerative combinatorics, discrete mathematics, generating functions, genome sequencing, analytic combinatorics | margaret.archibald@wits.ac.za

Mr Alexander Black

Associate Lecturer| Research interests: Functional analysis, Spectral Theory in Banach algebras. Currently preserver problems, specifically on stable spectra | Alexander.Black@wits.ac.za 

Professor Willem Conradie

Professor | Research interests: Non-classical logics, including modal, temporal, hybrid, non-distributive and many-valued logics | willem.conradie@wits.ac.za 

Professor Sonja Currie

Professor | Research interests: Functional analysis, Operator Theory, Difference and differential equations | sonja.currie@wits.ac.za

Dr Alexander Davison

Lecturer | Research interests: Differential equations, Lie symmetry methods, boundary value problems | alexander.davison@wits.ac.za

Mr Carl Friedrich Ginster

Associate Lecturer | Research Interests: Group Theory, Ring Theory, Mislin Genus, Extension Problems, and Nilpotent R-Powered Groups | carl.ginster@wits.ac.za 

Professor Yorick Hardy

Associate Professor | Research interests: Linear and multilinear algebra, partial operations on matrices and tensors | yorick.hardy@wits.ac.za

Dr Chinedu Izuchukwu

Lecturer | Research interests: Functional Analysis & Nonlinear Operator Theory, Continuous Optimization, Discrete Optimization, Variational Inequalities & Monotone Inclusions, Fractional Calculus, Differential Equations | chinedu.izuchukwu@wits.ac.za

Professor Sameerah Jamal

Associate Professor | Research interests: Symmetry methods of differential equations, exact solutions, recursion operators and conservation laws. Symmetries in relativity: conformal algebras, collineations and geodesics. Lie group theory: algebras and optimal sets | sameerah.jamal@wits.ac.za

Professor Abdul Kara

Professor | Research interests: Lie group analysis of differential equations, invariance and reduction of differential equations, conservation laws, manifolds and differential geometry | abdul.kara@wits.ac.za

Dr Eder Kikianty

Senior Lecturer | Research Interests: Geometry of Banach Spaces, Semi-Inner Products, Riesz Spaces, History of Mathematics | eder.kikianty@wits.ac.za 

Professor Arnold Knopfmacher

Research Professor | Research interests: Analytic Combinatorics and Enumerative Combinatorics | arnold.knopfmacher@wits.ac.za

Dr Wen-Chi Kuo

Senior Lecturer | Research interests: Stochastic Processes and Vector Lattices | Wen.Kuo@wits.ac.za

Dr Christo Kriel

Dr Ronnie Maartens

Lecturer | Research interests: Graph Theory, Random Graph Theory, Ramsey Theory and other types of graph colorings | ronnie.maartens@wits.ac.za

Dr Ben Mahudu

Lecturer | Research interests: Topology, category theory, Frolicher spaces, differential geometry| ben.mahudu@wits.ac.za 

Dr Carminda Mennen

Principal Tutor | Research interests: Continued fractions, Farey fractions and the Farey tessellation of hyperbolic space, Mobius maps, discrete groups, complex dynamics and approximations | carminda.mennen@wits.ac.za

Dr Miek Messerschmidt

Research interests: computational geometry, sphere packing, functional analysis, positivity, formalization. | miek.messerschmidt1@wits.ac.za 

Ms Thandiwe Mzobe

Associate Lecturer | Research Interests: Functional Analysis, Differential operators, Spectral theory of differential operators | thandiwe.mzobe1@wits.ac.za 

Dr Sithembele Nkonkobe

Senior Lecturer | Research Interests: Enumerative Combinatorics, analytic combinatorics, algebraic combinatorics, enumerative aspects of graph theory such as special numbers of graphs, and number theory | sithembele.nkonkobe@wits.ac.za 

Professor Eunice Mphako-Banda

Professor | Research interests: Low Dimension Topology- Knot Theory, Matroid Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorics | eunice.mphako-banda@wits.ac.za

Dr Boitumelo Moletsane

Lecturer | Research interests: Analysis of quadratic operator pencils | Boitumelo.Moletsane@wits.ac.za

Professor Augustine Munagi

Professor | Research Interests: Partitions of numbers, Partitions of finite sets, Compositions of numbers, Topics in Elementary Number Theory | Member of the editorial board of Discrete Mathematics Letters | augustine.munagi@wits.ac.za

Professor Darlison Nyirenda

Associate Professor | Research interests: q-Series, Partition Theory, Analytic Number Theory | darlison.nyirenda@wits.ac.za

Dr Chibueze Christian Okeke

Lecturer | Research interests: Optimization and Variational Problem, Fixed Point Theory, Variational Inequalities, Numerical Analysis to Optimization Problems | chibueze.okeke@wits.ac.za  

Dr Jabulani Phakathi

Lecturer | Research interest: Ramsey theory | Jabulani.Phakathi@wits.ac.za

Professor Bruce Watson

Professor | Research areas: Functional Analysis, Stochastic Processes and Spectral Theory of Differential Operators | bruce.watson@wits.ac.za

Professor Yevhen Zelenyuk

Professor | Research interests: Topology, algebra, combinatorics | yevhen.zelenyuk@wits.ac.za

Sessional lecturers

David Merand

Sessional Lecturer | Research interests: Mathematical misconceptions, Educational Technology, Machine Learning, Data Science; Quantum Computing | David.Merand@wits.ac.za

Professor Manfred Möller

Sessional Lecturer | Research interests: Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Linear Differential Operators, Spectral Theory | manfred.moller@wits.ac.za

Dr Mukinayi Hermenegilde Tshilombo

Sessional Lecturer | Research interests: Differential and Finsler geometries; topologies and bornology, C*-algebra in the category of Frolicher spaces | mukinayi.tshilombo@wits.ac.za

Dr Bertin Zinsou

Sessional Lecturer | Research interests: Functional Analysis, Differential operators, Spectral theory of differential operators, dependence problems with transmission conditions, Fixe point theory | bertin.zinsou@wits.ac.za