Apala Majumdar

Majumdar did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol. As a graduate student at Bristol, she also worked with Hewlett Packard Laboratories.^[1] She was awarded a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Bristol in 2006; her dissertation, Liquid crystals and tangent unit-vector fields in polyhedral geometries, was jointly supervised by Jonathan Robbins and Maxim Zyskin.^[2]

After working as a Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, she moved to the University of Bath in 2012, having been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in 2011.^[1] At Bath she became a Reader and the Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics (2018-2019). In 2019 she was appointed as a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde and moved to University of Manchester in 2025.

The British Liquid Crystal Society gave Majumdar their Young Scientist Award in 2012.^[3] The London Mathematical Society gave her their Anne Bennett Prize in 2015.^[4] In 2019 she was the winner of the academic category of the FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards.^[5] In 2024, she was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[6]