Doreen Anne Thomas | |
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| Occupation | Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Employer | University of Melbourne |
Doreen Anne Thomas AM FTSE is a mathematician and electrical and mechanical engineer. [1] She is an emeritus professor of Mechanical Engineering at Melbourne University [2] and director of the start-up company MineOptima. [3]
Thomas earned her BSc from the University of Cape Town, and another from the University of Witwatersrand. At Oxford she earned an MSc and a D.Phil [3] in 1976, with a mathematical dissertation entitled Problems in Functional Analysis supervised by Hilary Priestley. [4] Her mathematical in network analysis work led to her contributions in electrical and mechanical engineering.
As professor in the many engineering schools, in mathematics and statistics [5] and as associate dean of research and research training [5] at Melbourne she has done much to encourage women to be engineers. [5] [6] The engineering faculty of Melbourne University honours her work by offering postdoctoral scholarships in her name. [7] [6] [5] In 2006 she as appointed as the University of Melbourne's first female professor of Engineering. [1] She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Fellow of Engineers Australia. [8] She also has over 150 publications in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. [3]
She commercialised her mining software optimising mine design via her start-up company MineOptima which was acquired by the mining software company RPM. [9] This software, which reduces development time and haulage costs in underground tunnel design, has been licensed to some of the world’s largest mining companies. [1]
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