Dudley chose to study physics because it had few women, giving her more opportunities.[1] She has bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal,[5] where she studied from 2002 to 2012.[6] Her 2012 doctoral dissertation, Superpositions of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum, was supervised by Andrew Forbes.[7]
Dudley was one of two recipients of the 2015 Silver Jubilee Medal for early career achievement of the South African Institute of Physics.[8]Optica named her as a 2024 Optica Fellow, "for foundational contributions to the all-digital control of structured light, and for outstanding service to the international optics community".[9]
^Dudley, Angela (2012), Superpositions of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (Doctoral dissertation), University of KwaZulu-Natal, hdl:10204/6374
^Nedebeck, K. Mueller (August 2015), "SAIP Awards 2 Silver Medals at SAIP2015"(PDF), Physics Comment: A South African Physics Magazine, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 7, retrieved 2023-11-14