Toka Diagana

Toka Diagana (born December 27, 1967, also published as Tocka Diagana) is a Mauritanian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics and chair of mathematics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems. The topics of his research include functional analysis, stochastic processes, differential equations, dynamical systems, and operator theory.

Education and career Diagana is originally from Kaédi, in southern Mauritania, a country in Northwest Africa. After attending a top high school in Kaédi, he went north to Tunisia for undergraduate studies at the of Tunis El Manar University. There, his interests in mathematical analysis and topology were sparked by Abdenabi Achour and Said Zarati. At the suggestion of Achour, he traveled to France for doctoral study in mathematics, at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1. He earned a diploma of advanced studies (master's degree) there in 1995, and completed his Ph.D. thesis, titled Sum of Linear Operators and Kato-McIntosh's Conjecture, in 1999, under the direction of Jean-Bernard Baillon.