Prof Dr. Abdon Atangana, the highest ranking mathematician in the world according to Stanford University, is Academic Head of Department and Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa. He obtained his honours and master’s degrees from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the UFS with distinction, and obtained his PhD in applied mathematics from the Institute for Groundwater Studies.
He was included in the 2019 (Maths), 2020 (Cross-field) and the 2021 (Maths) Clarivate Web of Science lists of the World’s top 1% scientists (Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of ScienceTM.
Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000), and he was awarded The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) inaugural Mohammed A. Hamdan award for contributions to science in developing countries (The award is named after the late Vice President for the Arab Region, who passed away earlier this year. It’s given for outstanding mathematical work carried out by a scientist working and living in Africa or the Arab Region. The award can be given for work in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, probability or statistics).
In 2018 Prof Dr. Atangana was elected as a member of the African Academy of Sciences and in 2021 a member of The World Academy of Sciences, this makes him the first researcher in the world to be selected under the age of 40. He also ranked number one in the world in mathematics, number 186 in the world in all fields, and number one in Africa in all fields, according to the Stanford University list of top 2% scientists in the world. He was one of the first recipients of the Obada Award in 2018.
Prof. Dr. Atangana published a paper that was ranked by Clarivate in 2017 as the most cited mathematics paper in the world. Prof Dr. Atangana serves as an editor for 30 international journals, lead guest editor for 10 journals, and is also a reviewer of more than 450 international accredited journals, he is an authors of 14 books published in Springer, Elsevier and Taylor Francis, his total number of citations is 28,500 and with an h-index of 81 since 2013. He is the founder of the fractional calculus with non-singular kernel that is used in many fields of science, technology and engineering. He is the founder of the fractal-fractional differential and integral calculus.
He is the founder of the piecewise differential and integral calculus, concept used to model processes with crossover behaviours. His research interests include methods and applications of partial and ordinary differential equations, fractional differential equations, perturbation methods, asymptotic methods, iterative methods, and groundwater modelling.
Prof. Dr. Atangana is a pioneer in research on fractional calculus with non-local and non-singular kernels popular in applied mathematics today. He is the author of numerous books, including Integral Transforms and Engineering: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering: Simulations and Modeling, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Numerical Methods for Fractional Differentiation, Springer; Fractional Stochastic Differential Equations, Springer; Fractional Order Analysis, Wiley; Applications of Fractional Calculus to Modeling in Dynamics and Chaos, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Fractional Operators with Constant and Variable Order with Application to Geo-hydrology, Elsevier/Academic Press; Derivative with a New Parameter: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Elsevier/Academic Press; and New Numerical Scheme with Newton Polynomial: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Elsevier/Academic Press; among others.
He is the chairman of the African Mathematical Union Commission of Research and Innovation. To conclude Prof Atangana has graduated since 2015, 14 PhD and 25 Masters, 7 Post-doc across the globe. And he is the Founder of African institution of applied and industrial mathematics.
