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 | E-mail: simon.mukwembi@wits.ac.za 

Professor Mensah Folly-Gbetoula

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

Dr Jesse Alt

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

Professor Willem Conradie

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

Professor Sonja Currie

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

Dr Alexander Davison

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

Professor Marié Grobbelaar

Professor | E-mail: marie.grobbelaar@wits.ac.za 

Professor Yorick Hardy

Associate Professor | Research interests: Linear and multilinear algebra, partial operations on matrices and tensors | E-mail: 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 | E-mail: 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 | E-mail: 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 | E-mail: abdul.kara@wits.ac.za

Professor Arnold Knopfmacher

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

Professor Betsie Jonck

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

Dr Wen-Chi Kuo

Senior Lecturer | Research interests: Stochastic Processes and Vector Lattices | E-mail: 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 | E-mail: Christo.Kriel@wits.ac.za 

Dr Rugare Kwashira 

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

Dr Ronnie Maartens

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

Dr Ben Mahudu

Lecturer | Research interests: Topology, category theory, Frolicher spaces, differential geometry | E-mail: 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 | E-mail: Phetogo.Masemola@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 | E-mail: carminda.mennen@wits.ac.za

David Merand

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

Professor Manfred Möller

Professor Emeritus | Research interests: Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Linear Differential Operators, Spectral Theory | E-mail: manfred.moller@wits.ac.za

Professor Eunice Mphako-Banda

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

Professor Darlison Nyirenda

Associate Professor | Research interests: q-Series, Partition Theory, Analytic Number Theory | E-mail: 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 | E-mail: chibueze.okeke@wits.ac.za  

Dr Jabulani Phakathi

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

Dr Samuel Ssekajja 

Lecturer | Research interests: Differential Geometry, Mathematical Relativity, Geometry of Null Spaces | E-mail: 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 | E-mail: mukinayi.tshilombo@wits.ac.za

Dr Alma van der Merwe

Research interests: Linear Algebra, Matrix Analysis, Control Theory, Operator Theory, Complex Analysis and Functional Analysis | E-mail: alma.vandermerwe@wits.ac.za 

Professor Bruce Watson

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

Professor Yevhen Zelenyuk

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

Professor Yuliya Zelenyuk

Professor | Research interests: Algebra, Ramsey theory, enumerative combinatorics, topological algebra | E-mail: Yuliya.Zelenyuk@wits.ac.za

Dr Bertin Zinsou

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