Richard Kena Boadi

Faculty Biography

Richard Kena Boadi is a Senior Lecturer with the Mathematics Department and currently on sabbatical leave as a Fulbright Fellow with the Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College Park - USA. His research interest has been in Complex Hyperbolic Geometry, in particular Discrete Groups. He also has other interest in Number Theory and Quantum Geometry, with the goal of developing faculty in those areas. He is a passionate believer of training and mentoring people in pure mathematics and in particular women, having being himself mentored academically by a woman. His strength  has been his relationship with his students. He is graced with the patience of bringing students up from a low level to a very high level of academic pursuit.Completed his Bsc in Mathematics with First Class Honours in 2001 at KNUST, obtained a Masters in Mathematics at Cambridge University, UK in 2003 under Commonwealth Scholarship, then a PhD in Pure Mathematics at KNUST in 2011. In terms of research, he has several publications to his credit. In terms of teaching, he has taught at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate programs at his department and outside the department. In the area of service, he has been an Exams Officer, sat on various committees including curriculum development and accreditation, and served in many capacities.One of his services to the community has been his pastoral work in general and in particular with the Assemblies of God Church. He believes that there has been a mighty hand taking him through the phases of his life. The hand of the Almighty God who has revealed himself through his Son Jesus Christ.