Zinhle Mthombothi
MMED 2017 Mentor MSc student in Mathematics
SACEMA and AIMS
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
About: Zinhle is a student at SACEMA (Stellenbosch University) pursuing an MSc (Mathematical Sciences). Her thesis is titled "Modelling the effects of temperature change on the population dynamics of tsetse flies and trypanosomiasis transmission", supervised by Prof. John W. Hargrove and Dr. Rachid Ouifki. In 2015 she obtained a Structured Master’s degree in Mathematical Sciences at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences South Africa (AIMS-SA). She also holds a BSc degree in Mathematics and Chemistry, and a BSc Honours degree in Mathematics which were both obtained at Rhodes University in the years 2013 and 2014 respectively.