Hakizumwami Birali Runesha is the Assistant Vice President for Research Computing and founding Director of the Research Computing Center (RCC) at The University of Chicago. He is the current President of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC)-USA, member of Rwanda’s National Council of Science and Technology and founding member of Intel and Lenovo’s Project […]
Kikonde Mwatela heads the operations of one of Africa’s most innovative companies planning and managing its supply chain. Twiga Foods is a technology firm focused on creating linkages between Kenya’s food producers and Kenya’s markets in a reliable and predictable way. Kikonde has held brief over Twiga’s inbound, warehousing and distribution operations since inception five […]
Wilfred Ndifon is Professor of Theoretical Biology at AIMS, and the AIMS Network’s Director of Research. His research focuses on applying mathematical thinking and modeling to discover mechanistic insights about diverse phenomena relevant to adaptive immunity. He has advanced the mechanistic understanding of, among others, the formation of T-cell receptors via genetic recombination; the collapse […]
Kavilan Moodley completed his PhD in 2002 at the University of Cambridge, after which he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, before returning to South Africa in 2003 to take up an academic faculty position at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Currently he is full professor in the School of Mathematics, […]
Jonathan Mboyo Esole is a Congolese mathematician working on the interface of algebraic geometry and string theory. Jonathan was trained around the world (College Boboto, ULB, Cambridge, Leiden, Standford, Harvard). After being a Marie-Curie Fellow at Leuven University, a postdoc at Harvard Physics, and a Benjamin Pierce Fellow at Harvard Math, Jonathan joined Northeastern University […]
Astrid received her PhD in 2011 from the University of Jena in Germany. Her research focus was on aspects of quantum gravity and Yang-Mills theory. Following this, she held postdocs at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (where she is now a visiting fellow) in Waterloo and at Imperial College in London. In 2016, she […]