Awards and distinctions

  1. Senior Associate (1 January 2000 – 31 December 2005), Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
  2. National Research Foundation evaluation and rating:
    • 02 in 2020 (NRF definition of A category: Researchers who are unequivocally recognized by their peers as leading  international scholars in their field for the high quality and impact of their recent research  outputs)
    • B2 in 2013 and in 2008 (NRF definition of B category: Researchers who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs)
    • C1 in 2003 and C3 in 1997 (NRF definition of C category: Established researchers with a sustained recent record of productivity in the field who are recognized by their peers as having:
      -produced a body of quality work, the core of which has coherence and attests to   ongoing engagement with the field;
       -demonstrated the ability to conceptualize problems and apply research methods to    investigating them).
  3. Citation reports as of 27 August 2024:
    • h-index: 19; 1213 citations, excluding self-citations (ISI Web of Science) from 1987-2024
    • h-index: 17; 1317 citations, excluding self-citations (Scopus) from 1999-2024.
    • h-index: 29; 2798 citations; i10-index: 60 (Google Scholar) from 1987-2024.
    • 692 citations by 371 authors (MathSciNet) from 1987-2024.
  4. Convener of the NRF specialist Committee for Mathematical Sciences from  2008-2009
  5. Outstanding Academic Achiever Award, University of Pretoria for the following three consecutive periods:  1 January 2007 – 31 December 2009; 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2012 ; 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2015: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2018 (link to page)
  6. Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) from 1 December 2009
  7. Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa (RSSAf) 2022
  8. Fellow of Die Suid- Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (The South African Academy of Science and Arts) from 4 February 2009
  9. Fellow of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF) from October 2010
  10. My postgraduate student, Mr A Terefe, received a prize for excellent masters’ presentation at the 53rd Annual Congress of the South African Mathematical Society, 3-5 November 2010, Pretoria
  11. Laureate of the South African Mathematical Society (SAMS) Award for Research Distinction for 2011
  12. Subject of biographical record in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World 29th Edition 2012
  13. DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Bioengineering and Biosciences (from  August  2013)
  14. The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on 19 June 2013.

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