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Professor IM Rewitzky is a distinguished mathematician serving as Professor, Executive Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, and Vice-Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University. She obtained her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Cape Town in 1995 and held a position as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Throughout her career at Stellenbosch University, she has demonstrated strong leadership in educational development, including oversight of mathematics honours programs and contributions to academic administration. Rewitzky has supervised postgraduate theses, such as those on simulations in modal logic and projective set theory, and served as a contact for faculty recruitment in mathematics and applied discrete mathematics.

Her research focuses on discrete duality, relational semantics, program semantics, multirelations, predicate transformers, nondeterminism, lattice-based logics, and applied logics, with additional work in mathematical proficiency, academic development in higher education, and STEM education. Notable publications include "Binary multirelations" (2003, cited 73 times), "Three dual ontologies" with C. Brink (2002, cited 45 times), "A paradigm for program semantics: power structures and duality" with C. Brink (2001, cited 38 times), "Duality via truth: semantic frameworks for lattice-based logics" with E. Orłowska (2005, cited 37 times), "Discrete dualities for Heyting algebras with operators" with E. Orłowska (2007, cited 35 times), "Algebras for Galois-style connections and their discrete duality" with E. Orłowska (2010, cited 34 times), and "Dualities for structures of applied logics" with E. Orłowska and A.M. Radzikowska (2015, cited 32 times). Her scholarship has accumulated over 550 citations on Google Scholar. Rewitzky contributes editorially to Quaestiones Mathematicae and has co-authored recent work on STEM extended curriculum programs, such as "Opportunity and Outcome: A Quantitative Evaluation of the STEM Extended Curriculum Programme at a Research-Intensive University" with M. Mouton (2025). She engages in public lectures and initiatives promoting women in mathematical sciences.