Apala Majumdar
{{short description|British applied mathematician}}
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University of Bath
University of Strathclyde
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| thesis_title = Liquid crystals and tangent unit-vector fields in polyhedral geometries
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|doctoral_advisor = Jonathan Robbins
Maxim Zyskin
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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.{{r|lms}}
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.{{r|mgp}}
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.{{r|lms}} 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.{{r|ysa}}
The London Mathematical Society gave her their Anne Bennett Prize in 2015.{{r|abams}}
In 2019 she was the winner of the academic category of the FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards.{{r|fdm}} In 2024, she was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.{{Cite web |title=Professor Apala Majumdar |url=https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/fellow/professor-apala-majumdar-38612/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Royal Society of Edinburgh |language=en-GB}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/content/apala-majumdar|title=Apala Majumdar|publisher=London Mathematical Society|access-date=2019-07-23}}
{{citation|url=https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/news/keble-mathematician-wins-young-scientist-prize|title=Keble mathematician wins Young Scientist prize|date=8 March 2012|publisher=Keble College, Oxford|access-date=2019-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724002850/https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/news/keble-mathematician-wins-young-scientist-prize|archive-date=24 July 2019|url-status=dead}}
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