Vivien Challis

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, retrieved 2024-02-14
  2. ^ QUT gains grants under ARC Discovery Project funding, Queensland University of Technology, 7 January 2022, retrieved 2024-02-14
  3. ^ a b c "Dr Vivien Challis", Our people, Queensland University of Technology School of Mathematical Sciences, retrieved 2024-02-14
  4. ^ Multi-Property Topology Optimisation with the Level-Set Method (PhD thesis), University of Queensland, 2009
  5. ^ "News", WIMSIG Newsletter, Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Australian Mathematical Society, March 2024, retrieved 2024-05-22