Apala Majumdar

Apala Majumdar is a British applied mathematician specialising in the mathematics of liquid crystals. She is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde.

Education and career

Majumdar did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol. As a graduate student at Bristol, she also worked with Hewlett Packard Laboratories.[1] She completed a Ph.D. at Bristol in 2005; her dissertation, Liquid crystals and tangent unit-vector fields in polyhedral geometries, was jointly supervised by Jonathan Robbins and Maxim Zyskin.[2]

After working as a Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, she moved to the University of Bath in 2012, having been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in 2011.[1] At Bath she became a Reader and the Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics (2018-2019). In 2019 she was appointed as a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde.

Recognition

The British Liquid Crystal Society gave Majumdar their Young Scientist Award in 2012.[3] The London Mathematical Society gave her their Anne Bennett Prize in 2015.[4] In 2019 she was the winner of the academic category of the FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards.[5]

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References
  1. Apala Majumdar, London Mathematical Society, retrieved 2019-07-23
  2. Apala Majumdar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Keble mathematician wins Young Scientist prize, Keble College, Oxford, 8 March 2012, archived from the original on 24 July 2019, retrieved 2019-07-23
  4. "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 62 (9): 1081, October 2015
  5. National STEM award success for Bath mathematician, University of Bath, retrieved 2019-07-23
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