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Professor Sibusiso Moyo holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Natal, Durban, and a Masters (with distinction) in Tertiary Education Management from the LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne Australia. As a scholar, she has published widely in the Mathematical Sciences with a focus on differential equations and optimisation problems in international peer reviewed journals. She has also successfully supervised postgraduate students and continues mentoring and supervising at Master’s and Doctoral level.  She has served in various capacities and levels at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) as Associate Director and Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics and Director Research and Postgraduate Support up to mid-2017. She is currently an sssociate editor for the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management published by Taylor and Francis and has served as guest editor of the Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences Journal (published by John Wiley & Sons) and Journal of Engineering Mathematics (published by Springer). She is also board member for Agenda Feminist Media (which hosts the Agenda journal published by Taylor & Francis).

At DUT, Professor Moyo was responsible for driving the research, innovation and engagement agenda including supporting student entrepreneurship and innovation through the newly established DUT Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.  She was part of the DUT Founding team that has established two start up entrepreneurial desks which acted as student incubators both in the Midlands and Durban campuses established in 2018. In 2019 and 2021, she was awarded the special national Entrepreneurial Development in Higher Education (EDHE) award to a deputy vice-chancellor responsible for facilitating remarkable institutional support for entrepreneurship development in terms of student entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in academia and in growing an entrepreneurial university.

She currently serves as chairperson of the Board of Directors for CASME (Center for the Advancement of Science and Mathematics Education) and is board member on the boards of Innovate Durban, the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Advisory Board for the Future Professors Programme and innobiz.

She is honorary dean of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tianjin Vocational Institute, Tianjin, China from 2021 to 2023; and was co-Dean of the Confucius Institute from 2018 to August 2022.

Her current position is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies at Stellenbosch University.