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

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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

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

References

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  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. 1 2 3 "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, archived from the original on 2024-04-29, retrieved 2024-05-22
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