Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour
Associate Professor
Howard College of Arts and Sciences
Mathematics and Computer Science
224聽Russell Hall
kantwifo@samford.edu
205-726-2449

Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, a Mathematical Eco-epidemiologist, holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Ghana. He earned his Master of Philosophy degree through a joint program between the University of Ghana and the University of Rochester, New York. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Before joining the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at 极乐禁地, Dr. Antwi served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He is deeply passionate about teaching and undergraduate research, and his professional interests include ordinary, partial, and stochastic differential equations, particularly their applications in biological, ecological, epidemiological, and social systems. Recently, he collaborated with students to investigate the impact of defense mechanisms in eco-epidemiological models, leading to several conference presentations and publications.
Outside of his academic pursuits, Dr. Antwi enjoys soccer, track, hiking, choral music, and spending quality time with his family.

Publications

  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour. When long-term coexistence fails: finite time extinction in a non-linear model, submitted (2025).
  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Zachary Overton, and Dylan Lee. Dynamics of Diseased-Impacted Prey Populations: Defense and Allee Effect Mechanisms, arXiv: 2505.01952, submitted (2025).
  • Kendall H. Bearden and Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour. On a predator-prey model with square root functional response. Accepted, J. Appli. Nonlinear Dyn. (2025).
  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Folashade B. Agusto, and Isabella Kemajou-Brown. Modeling the Effects of Lethal and Non-Lethal Predation on the Dynamics of Tick-Borne Disease. Math. Biosci. Eng. 22(6), pp. 1428-1463 (2025).
  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Sarah P. Westmoreland, and Kendall H. Bearden. Dual fear phenomenon in an eco-epidemiological model with prey aggregation. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 139(6): 518, pp. 1--21, (2024).
  • Vaibhava Srivastava, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, and Rana D. Parshad. Exploring unique dynamics in a predator-prey model with generalist predator and group defense in prey. Chaos 34, 013107 (2024).
  • Takyi, E. M. and Antwi-Fordjour, K. Counter-attack in a stage-structured model with adult predator-induced fear and competition. Int. J. of Dynam. Control, DOI: , (2023).
  • Rana D. Parshad, Sureni Wickramasooriya, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, and Aniket Banerjee. Additional food causes predators to explode – unless the predators compete. Int. J. of Bifurc. & Chaos, 33(3) 2350034, (2023).
  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Rana D. Parshad, Hannah E. Thompson, and Stephanie B. Westaway. Fear-Driven extinction and (DE)stabilization in a predator-prey model incorporating prey herd behavior and mutual interference. AIMS Mathematics, 8(2): 3353-3377, (2023).
  • Seonguk Kim, and Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour. Prey group defense to predator aggregated induced fear. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 137(6): 704, 1-17, (2022).
  • Rana D. Parshad, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, and Eric M. Takyi. Some novel results in two species competition. SIAM J. Appl. Math., 81(5), pp. 1847-1869, (2021).
  • Harendra Verma, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Mainul Hossain, Nikhil Pal, Rana D. Parshad, and Pankaj Mathur. A “Double” Fear Effect in a Tri-trophic Food Chain Model. Eur. Phys. J. Plus., 136:905, pp. 1-17, (2021).
  • Kushani De Silva, Aladeen Basheer, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Matthew A. Beauregard, Vineeta Chand, Rana D. Parshad. The “Higher" Status Language Doesn't Always Win: The Fall of English in India And The Rise of Hindi. Adv. Complex Syst., 23(8) 20500021, pp. 1-20, (2021).
  • Eric M. Takyi, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Said Kouachi, and Rana D. Parshad. A Remark on “Global dynamics of a Tritrophic food chain model subject to the Allee effects in the prey population with sexually reproductive generalised-type top predator” [Comp. and Math. Methods. 2019; E1079, Pp. 1-23]. Comp. and Math. Methods. 2021; 3(1) e1159, pp. 1-9, (2021).
  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Rana D. Parshad, Matthew A. Beauregard. Dynamics of a predator-prey model with generalized Holling type functional response and mutual interference. Math. Biosci., 326, 108407, 1-15, (2020).
  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Seonguk Kim, Marius Nkashama. Global analysis of the shadow Gierer-Meinhardt system with general linear boundary condition in a random environment. J. Appl. Anal. Comput., 10(5), 1980-1994, (2020).
  • Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay, Rana Parshad, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour, Emmanuel Quansah, and Sarita Kumari. Global Dynamics of Stochastic Predator-Prey Model with Mutual Interference and Prey Defense. J. Appli. Math. Comput., 60, pp. 169-190, (2019).
  • Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour and Marius Nkashama. Global existence of solutions of Gierer-Meinhardt system with mixed boundary conditions. Appl. Math., 8, pp. 857-867, (2017).
  • Alzaki Fadlallah, Kwadwo Antwi-Fordjour and Marius Nkashama. Generalized spectrum of Steklov-Robin type problem for elliptic systems. Appl. Math., 6, pp. 421-429, (2015).