Staff

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

Dr Jesse Alt

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

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

Professor Mensah Folly-Gbetoula

Associate Professor | Research Interests: Lie analysis of difference equations and differential equations | mensah.folly-gbetoula@wits.ac.za

Professor Marié Grobbelaar

Professor | marie.grobbelaar@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: Fixed Point Algorithms, Optimization Theory, Variational Inequalities and Monotone Inclusions | 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

Professor Arnold Knopfmacher

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

Professor Betsie Jonck

Professor | Research interests: Graph Theory colourings and domination, Distances in graphs, Ramsey Theory | Betsie.Jonck@wits.ac.za

Dr Wen-Chi Kuo

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

Dr Christo Kriel

Lecturer | Research interests: Graph theory: Graph polynomials - k-defect polynomials and the Tutte polynomial, Graph connectivity, graph operators and intersection graphs, Concept analysis, Misconceptions and misunderstanding in first year mathematics | Christo.Kriel@wits.ac.za

Dr Rugare Kwashira

Senior Lecturer | Research interests: Algebra: Finite groups, Mislin Genus and Non cancellation sets | rugare.kwashira@wits.ac.za

Professor Florian Luca

Professor | Research interests: Number Theory | Florian.Luca@wits.ac.za

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 Phetogo Masemola

Lecturer | Research interests: Lie symmetry methods and conservation laws to applied differential equations with a particular interest in Schrodinger type equations | Phetogo.Masemola@wits.ac.za

Dr Carminda Mennen

Senior 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

David Merand

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

Professor Manfred Möller

Professor Emeritus | Research interests: Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Linear Differential Operators, Spectral Theory | manfred.moller@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

Dr Samuel Ssekajja

Lecturer | Research interests: Differential Geometry, Mathematical Relativity, Geometry of Null Spaces | samuel.ssekajja@wits.ac.za

Dr Mukinayi Hermenegilde Tshilombo

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