Ishmael Takyi is a mathematical physicist, employed as Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). His route to the current position in KNUST included a PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Physicist at the University of Stellenbosch.

• PhD, University of Stellenbosch
• MSc, University of Stellenbosch
• MSc, AIMS via University of Cape Town
• BSc. Hons. University of Ghana