Apala Majumdar

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Apala Majumdar
Born
Airdrie, Scotland
Alma mater University of Bristol
Scientific career
Fields Liquid crystals
Institutions University of Oxford
University of Bath
University of Strathclyde
University of Manchester
Thesis Liquid crystals and tangent unit-vector fields in polyhedral geometries  (2006)
Doctoral advisor Jonathan Robbins
Maxim Zyskin

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 Manchester.

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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 was awarded a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Bristol in 2006; 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 and moved to University of Manchester in 2025.

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] In 2024, she was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 Apala Majumdar, London Mathematical Society , retrieved 23 July 2019
  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 23 July 2019
  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 23 July 2019
  6. ↑ "Professor Apala Majumdar". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
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