Prof. Dr. Boniface Belagoa Nkemzi is a Full Professor of Mathematics and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Buea, Cameroon, a position he has held since June 1997.

His research fields are numerical analysis and partial differential equations, with particular focus on convergence analysis, Fourier analysis, finite element methods, and problems in non-smooth domains. A central theme of his work is the treatment of singularities arising in solutions of equations from mathematical physics — including Maxwell’s equations and the Poisson equation — in polygonal, polyhedral, and axisymmetric domains with edges and corners.

Since January 2008, he has served as a Regular Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. In 2008, he was awarded a Georg Forster Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, hosted at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (HTW Dresden), of which he remains an alumni member.

His publication record spans leading international journals including Applied Numerical Mathematics, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, et Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, with 23 publications addressing the mathematical foundations of finite element methods for problems in non-smooth domains — work of direct relevance to computational physics and engineering simulation.

He is a long-standing collaborator of Prof. Gideon Ngwa and other members of the University of Buea mathematics community, and is a recognised contributor to the development of mathematical sciences in Cameroon.