Biography
Mothibi completed his MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, where he worked on a range of topics in condensed matter theory, culminating in a dissertation on symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in quantum chains. Before this, he completed a BSc Honours in Physics at the University of Cape Town, where his research focused on random walks on Lie groups, following undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Computer Science.
This work sparked his interest in building dynamical physics simulations in low-resource environments, an idea he further developed during his time at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, where he is now a Fellow.
Mothibi is currently reading for a DPhil in Mathematics at Oxford. His research interests lie in the application of probability theory to physics, including problems in disordered quantum systems and statistical physics, particularly through the lens of renormalisation group methods.
Outside of academia, he is an avid cricket player and enjoys film photography and music production, where he composes lo-fi instrumentals.