Peter Waweru Kamaku (born 27 May 1982) is a Kenyan

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and researcher. He has been a referee in Kenyan Premier League since 2013 and a

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listed referee since 2017. He is also a professor of

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in Kenya.

Early life and education

Waweru was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He attended Gatheri Primary School and Kirogo High School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics & computer science in (2006) and a Master of Science in pure mathematics (2008) both from

. He attained a Ph.D. in pure mathematics in 2013 from

. In 2015, Waweru earned a postgraduate diploma in education technology from University of Cape Town.

Career

Referee works

Waweru started to officiate football in the lower leagues of Kenya in 2011. In 2013, he joined Kenyan Premier League and in 2017 he was listed as a

referee. He has officiated in various FIFA tournaments such as AFCON U20 in 2019, AFCON 2019 in Egypt, 2019 U17 World Cup in Brazil, 2021 CHAN where he officiated the 2021 CHAN finals. Since 2017, Waweru has officiated several CAF Champions League games, Confederation Cup matches and FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. Waweru was chosen as one of the referees for the

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held in Cameroon from 9 January to 6 February 2022.

Lecturer

Waweru has served in different positions such as an Academic teaching assistant (2007-2009), as a Tutorial Follow (2009-2013), as a Lecturer (2013-2019) and since 2019 he serves as a senior lecturer at

. Waweru lectures Number theory, Coding theory and Algebra related courses.

Other considerations

He is a member of the 20 pioneer group for CAF/FIFA Professional Referee 2020.

Research reviews

He has published the finding of his research on Abstract Algebra, Coding and Number Theories in Mathematical books and other peer-related publication journals hence cited with an H-Index of 7 with 321 citations in over 120 peer-reviewed journals in Mathematical and Science publications.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waweru, Peter Kamaku 1982 births Living people Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology alumni Kenyan mathematicians People from Nairobi University of Cape Town alumni Academic staff of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology