Biography:Vivien Challis

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Short description: Australian mathematician

Vivien Joy Challis is an Australian applied mathematician whose research involves topology optimisation through the level-set method and its application to bone implants,[1] piezoelectric metamaterials, and robotics.[2] She is a senior lecturer in applied and computational mathematics at the Queensland University of Technology.[3]

Education and career

Challis has a PhD from the University of Queensland, completed in 2009.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Multi-Property Topology Optimisation with the Level-Set Method, was jointly supervised by Anthony P. Roberts and Andrew H. Wilkins.[4]

She remained at the university as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer until moving to the Queensland University of Technology as a lecturer in 2019. In 2021, she became a senior lecturer.[3]

Recognition

Challis is the 2024 recipient of the J. H. Michell Medal of ANZIAM.[5]

References

  1. "UQ mathematicians design bone implants for the future", UQ News (University of Queensland), 3 February 2011, https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2011/02/uq-mathematicians-design-bone-implants-future, retrieved 2024-02-14 
  2. QUT gains grants under ARC Discovery Project funding, Queensland University of Technology, 7 January 2022, https://www.qut.edu.au/study/science/news-and-events?id=179668, retrieved 2024-02-14 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Dr Vivien Challis", Our people (Queensland University of Technology School of Mathematical Sciences), https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/vivien.challis, retrieved 2024-02-14 
  4. Multi-Property Topology Optimisation with the Level-Set Method, University of Queensland, 2009, https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184547 
  5. "News", WIMSIG Newsletter (Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Australian Mathematical Society), March 2024, https://austms.org.au/special-interest-groups/wimsig/wimsig-news/wimsig-newsletter-march-2024/, retrieved 2024-05-22