Dr Brice Razakarinoro is a postdoctoral researcher at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) South Africa. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Stellenbosch University. He was part of the ALGANT Master programme during which he spent the first year in Padova, Italy and the second year in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His research interests include investigating the use of concepts from near-vector spaces to improve classical encryption schemes, as well as topics in explicit number theory.