Professor Jacek Banasiak

Professor Jacek Banasiak is the DSTI-NRF SARChI Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. His areas of research include applied functional analysis, kinetic theory and mathematical biology, partial differential equations, dynamical systems and singular perturbations.

Prof Banasiak completed an MSc in engineering at Lodz University of Technology in Poland and a PhD in mathematics at the University of Strathclyde, and obtained a habilitation (DSc) from the University of Warsaw. He has held positions of professor and visiting professor at Lodz University of Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Warsaw and University of Franche-Comte. He was also co-Head of the International Laboratory on Applied Semigroup Theory at the South Ural State University.

Since 2016, he has published 33 articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as three book chapters and four books. He has supervised eight postdoctoral Fellows, 17 PhD students and more than 25 MSc students.

His accolades include the Minister of Education and Science of Poland Award; the UKZN Book Prize; the South African Mathematical Society Award for Research Distinction; and the Cross of Merit of Poland.