UCT retains Africa's top spot in ARWU rankings
UCT remains the top university on the continent, according to ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023.
Professor Igor Barashenkov
Professor Barashenkov received his MSc from the Moscow State University and a PhD in mathematical and theoretical physics from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and theory of nonlinear waves, in particular solitary waves, localised patterns and vortices. Barashenkov's early research projects focussed on the so-called dark solitons.