Joseph Y.T. Mugisha is a Ugandan mathematician (specialising in biomathematics) and also former Principal of the College of Natural Sciences (CONAS), before which, he was the dean of the Faculty of Science from 2009 to 2010, in which position he led the process of conversion of the faculty to a college. He held the principal post initially in acting capacity (2010 to 2011) before substantive appointment in 2012. He has also served as the acting deputy vice chancellor (academic affairs) at Makerere University.^[3]

Mugisha joined Makerere University as a teaching assistant in 1987, rising through the ranks to professorship in 2008. He has also served the university in various leadership and management capacities; acting director Institute of Computer Science – Makerere University from August to December 2003; deputy director Institute of Computer Science – Makerere University from 2003 to August 2005. He is also a member of the Makerere University Senate, which is the highest academic decision-making body of the university; he has been appointed to several boards and committees within the university.^[4]

Mugisha has taught courses at undergraduate and graduate level. He has supervised and mentored over 40 students at graduate level (both PhD and MSc) in the region. He is an international researcher and examiner with strong links to several universities in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. He has served as a reviewer of several international journals like Mathematical Biosciences, Southern Journal of Sciences, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Ecological Modelling, Computers and Mathematics with Application, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, among others.