{{Short description|Polish mathematician (born 1959)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|03|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Łódź, Poland | citizenship = {{Hlist|Poland|South Africa}} | fields = Semigroup theory<br>Asymptotic analysis<br>Mathematical biology<br>Fragmentation coagulation equations<br>Difference and differential equations | workplaces = University of KwaZulu-Natal<br>University of Pretoria<br>Łódź University of Technology<br>University of Strathclyde | alma_mater = | thesis_title = On mixed initial-boundary value problems for second-order elliptic and parabolic equations in non-smooth dom | thesis_url = https://nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/research?id=89711&_k=oyzgp4 | thesis_year = 1989 | doctoral_advisor = Gary Francis Roach<br>Izydor Dziubiński | awards = SAMS award for Research Distinction<br>Polish Cross of Merit (Silver) | education = Łódź University of Technology (MSc)<br>University of Strathclyde (PhD)<br>University of Warsaw (PD) | honorific_suffix = FAAS | honorific_prefix = Professor }} '''Jacek Banasiak''' (born 15 March 1959) is a Polish mathematician who is a Professor and South African Research Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
== Early life and education == Jacek Banasiak was born on 15 March 1959 in Łódź, Poland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-0774 |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=orcid.org}}</ref> He obtained a Master of Science (MSc) in Math from the Łódź University of Technology in 1981,<ref name=":1" /> and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in mathematics on 15 March 1989 from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nowa Nauka Polska |url=https://nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/research?id=89711&_k=oyzgp4 |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=nauka-polska.pl}}</ref> He was hablitated (PD) in Physics on 17 June 1999 from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw with a thesis titled ''Singularly Perturbed Evolution Equations with Applications in Kinetic Theory and Other Branches of Mathematical Physics''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nowa Nauka Polska |url=https://nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/research?id=8053&_k=7k0pre |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=nauka-polska.pl}}</ref> == Career and research == Banasiak became a professor on 21 December 2007,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Nowa Nauka Polska |url=https://nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/scientist?id=74107&_k=81bc9d |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=nauka-polska.pl}}</ref> and has been a Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal from 2011 until 2015.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Scientific Committee |url=https://www.pacom2022.com/program/committees |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacek Banasiak {{!}} African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - Academia.edu |url=https://aims.academia.edu/JacekBanasiak |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=aims.academia.edu}}</ref> After, he joined the University of Pretoria and became the South African Research Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacek Banasiak {{!}} University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/jacek-banasiak |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=www.up.ac.za}}</ref> extraordinary professor at the Łódź University of Technology,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof J (Jacek) Banasiak {{!}} Article {{!}} University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/mathematics-and-applied-mathematics/article/2229299/prof-j-jacek-banasiak |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=www.up.ac.za |language=en}}</ref> and a visiting professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the Strathclyde University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof Jacek Banasiak {{!}} University of Strathclyde |url=https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/banasiakjacekprof/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=www.strath.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>
Banasiak research focuses on applied mathematics especially semigroup theory,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacek Banasiak |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ufHvf1IAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> asymptotic analysis,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Banasiak |first1=Jacek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9NrsCgAAQBAJ |title=Singularly Perturbed Evolution Equations With Applications To Kinetic Theory |last2=Mika |first2=Janusz R. |date=1995-10-24 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-981-4500-97-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mika |first1=J. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92ZQpEzAqJIC&dq=info:sGc9g7l51mIJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA1 |title=Singularly Perturbed Evolution Equations with Applications to Kinetic Theory |last2=Banasiak |first2=J. |date=1995 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-981-02-2125-6 |language=en}}</ref> mathematical biology,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Banasiak |first1=Jacek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aORvb9ZcFOgC |title=Multiscale Problems in the Life Sciences: From Microscopic to Macroscopic |last2=Miekisz |first2=Jacek |date=2008-05-30 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-540-78360-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-05140-6 |title=Methods of Small Parameter in Mathematical Biology |series=Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology |year=2014 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-05140-6|isbn=978-3-319-05139-0 |last1=Banasiak |first1=Jacek |last2=Lachowicz |first2=Mirosław }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ngwa |first1=Gideon A. |last2=Teboh-Ewungkem |first2=Miranda I. |last3=Dumont |first3=Yves |last4=Ouifki |first4=Rachid |last5=Banasiak |first5=Jacek |date=2019-11-21 |title=On a three-stage structured model for the dynamics of malaria transmission with human treatment, adult vector demographics and one aquatic stage |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519318306490 |journal=Journal of Theoretical Biology |series=Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Professor Philip Maini |language=en |volume=481 |pages=202–222 |doi=10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.12.043 |pmid=30610868 |bibcode=2019JThBi.481..202N |s2cid=58648095 |issn=0022-5193|hdl=2263/68220 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref> fragmentations coagulation equations,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9780429280320/analytic-methods-coagulation-fragmentation-models-jacek-banasiak-wilson-lamb-philippe-laurencot |title=Analytic Methods for Coagulation-Fragmentation Models |date=2019-09-05 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-429-28032-0 |language=en |doi=10.1201/9780429280320|last1=Banasiak |first1=Jacek |last2=Lamb |first2=Wilson |last3=Laurençot |first3=Philippe |s2cid=198353792 }}</ref> and difference and differential equations.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Banasiak |first=J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zr0atDhXt7EC |title=Mathematical Modelling in One Dimension: An Introduction Via Difference and Differential Equations |date=2013-02-21 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-65468-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.apple.com/us/book/evolutionary-equations-with-applications-in-natural/id939114593 |title=Evolutionary Equations with Applications in Natural Sciences |language=en-US}}</ref> Banasiak served as the vice president of the South African Mathematical Society (2001–2005).<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Banasiak |url=https://africanscientists.africa/business-directory/banasiak/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=African Scientists Directory |language=en-US}}</ref> He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Jacek Banasiak – AIMS South Africa |url=https://aims.ac.za/researcher/prof-jacek-banasiak/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |language=en-US}}</ref> He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Afrika Matematika since 2010,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Afrika Matematika |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/13370 |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=Springer |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> Associate Editor of Quaestiones Mathematicae<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quaestiones Mathematicae |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=tqma20& |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=Taylor & Francis |language=en}}</ref> and Evolution Equations and Control Theory (EECT),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Editorial Board {{!}} Evolution Equations and Control Theory |url=https://www.aimsciences.org/eect/editorialboard}}</ref> and a member of the Editorial Board of Mathematical Methods for the Applied Sciences<ref>{{Cite web |title=Editorial Board {{!}} Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences |doi=10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1476 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991476/homepage/editorialboard.html}}</ref> and Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/12591/editors |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=Springer |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225014705/https://www.springer.com/journal/12591/editors |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Awards and honours == In 2012, Banasiak won the South African Mathematical Society (SAMS) award for Research Distinction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Award winners – SAMS |url=http://www.sams.ac.za/award-winners-sams/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224215306/http://www.sams.ac.za/award-winners-sams/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2014, he was honoured with the Polish Cross of Merit (Silver) for his contributions to science.<ref name=":1" /> Banasiak was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Banasiak Jacek {{!}} The AAS |url=https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/banasiak-jacek |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=www.aasciences.africa |archive-date=2022-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224173238/https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/banasiak-jacek |url-status=dead }}</ref> == Selected publications == * {{cite book | last1=Banasiak | first1=J. | last2=Arlotti | first2=Luisa | title=Perturbations of positive semigroups with applications | publisher=Springer | publication-place=London | date=2006 | isbn=978-1-85233-993-7 | oclc=67766114}} * {{cite book | last1=Banasiak | first1=Jacek | last2=Lachowicz | first2=Mirosław | title=Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology | chapter=Methods of Small Parameter in Mathematical Biology | publisher=Springer International Publishing | publication-place=Cham | year=2014 | isbn=978-3-319-05139-0 | issn=2164-3679 | doi=10.1007/978-3-319-05140-6}} * {{cite journal | last1=Banasiak | first1=Jacek | last2=Mika | first2=Janusz R. | title=Singularly perturbed telegraph equations with applications in the random walk theory | journal=Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis | publisher=Hindawi Limited | volume=11 | issue=1 | date=1998-01-01 | issn=1048-9533 | doi=10.1155/s1048953398000021 | pages=9–28 | doi-access=free }} * {{cite book | last1=Mika | first1=J. R. | last2=Banasiak | first2=J. | title=Singularly perturbed evolution equations with applications to kinetic theory | publisher=World Scientific | publication-place=Singapore | date=1995 | isbn=981-02-2125-8 | oclc=32746102}} * {{cite book | last1=Banasiak | first1=J. | last2=Lamb | first2=Wilson | last3=Laurençot | first3=Philippe | title=Analytic methods for coagulation-fragmentation models. Volume II | publication-place=Boca Raton, FL | date=2020 | isbn=978-0-429-28032-0 | oclc=1119391451}} == References == <references /> == External links == * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV1vtQ2PPQQ ''Explicit solutions of fragmentation models with growth or decay''], Professor Jacek Banasiak on YouTube
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Banasiak, Jacek}} Category:South African mathematicians Category:Polish mathematicians Category:Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences Category:Recipients of the Cross of Merit (Poland) Category:Łódź University of Technology alumni Category:Alumni of the University of Strathclyde Category:1959 births Category:Living people