Antoinette Tordesillas

Antoinette A. Tordesillas is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She heads the Micromechanics of Granular Media Group in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Melbourne.[1]

Education and career

Tordesillas attended the University of Adelaide where she majored in applied mathematics and physical and inorganic chemistry, and earned a B.S. in 1986. Her honours thesis in applied mathematics involved the development of a model of the hot-dip galvanising process for creating sheet metal.[2] She earned her Ph.D. in solid mechanics in 1992 from the University of Wollongong, with a dissertation involving the contact mechanics of roller coating, supervised by James Murray Hill.[2][3][4] After temporary positions at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Kansas State University, she joined the Melbourne department of mathematics and statistics in 1996. She took on a joint position in geomechanics there in 2013, and was promoted to full professor in 2016.[2]

Awards

Tordesillas was awarded the J H Michell Medal in 2000 by the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society. This is an annual award for an outstanding new researcher in applied mathematics.[5]

Publications
  • Mathematical approaches to cylindrical elastostatic contact problems with applications in roller coating technology, 1992
  • Development of micromechanical models for particulate media : the role of mesoscale kinematics and non-affine motion in the transition from particle to bulk mechanical properties, 2006

References
  1. "Micromechanics of Granular Media Group website". Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), American Society of Civil Engineers, retrieved 16 August 2016
  3. Antoinette Tordesillas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Tordesillas, Antoinette (1992), Mathematical approaches to cylindrical elastostatic contact problems with applications in roller coating technology, University of Wollongong Thesis Collection, retrieved 16 August 2016.
  5. The 2000 JH Michell Medal, ANZIAM, retrieved 16 August 2016


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