Delene van Wyk

Delene van Wyk is a lecturer and researcher in Mathematical Statistics and possesses an MSc. in Advanced Data Analytics from the University of Pretoria. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics at the same institution, she is passionate about teaching and research in circular and spherical statistics. Her first publication appeared in a South African journal in 2023, with a second one in an international journal well on its way. Having entered the field of Statistics in 2019, she worked as a research intern on various postgraduate projects at the University of Pretoria. Fluent in programming environments such as R and SAS, with adequate experience in Python, her current research focuses on the distribution theory of directional statistics. She expresses keen interest in further exploring application possibilities related to modeling wind direction and animal movement.