Ibrahim Abdel-Razag Eltayeb

Ibrahim Abdelrazzak Eltayeb is a Sudanese mathematician and professor of applied mathematics at the University of Nizwa in Oman. He is a member of the African Academy of Sciences, the Royal Astronomical Society, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Early life and education Eltayeb was born in a village on the Nile river, about 500 km north of Khartoum in Sudan, where he attended government schools. He studied in the United Kingdom on a scholarship and received a BSc in mathematics from the University of London in 1968. In 1972, he obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Eltayeb has published more than 50 papers in journals, mainly in the fields of geophysics, geomagnetism, and aeronomy. He has also developed mathematical models and methods for studying the Earth's deep interior. He served on the executive committee of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) from 1991 to 1999 and chaired the scientific division I of IAGA on internal fields and secular variations from 1999 to 2003. He has been a member of the council of the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI) since 1987 and was on the awards committee for mathematics international prize of TWAS from 1998 to 2006.