Claire Postlethwaite
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Claire Maria Postlethwaite is an applied mathematician based in New Zealand, where she is a professor in applied mathematics at the University of Auckland and a principal investigator for Te Pūnaha Matatini.[1] Her research involves heteroclinic networks in dynamical systems and delay differential equations, and their varied applications including neuroscience, evolutionary robotics,[2] animal migration,[3][4] and climate modelling.
Postlethwaite was a mathematics student at the University of Cambridge in England. After earning a bachelor's degree in 2001 and taking Part III of the Mathematical Tripos in 2002, she completed her PhD at Cambridge in 2006.[2] Her dissertation, Robust Heteroclinic Cycles and Networks, was supervised by J. H. P. Dawes.[5]
She became a postdoctoral researcher in the US, at Northwestern University and the University of Houston. In 2008, she took a lecturer position at the University of Auckland. She was named as a senior lecturer in 2011 and associate professor in 2017;[2] she is now a full professor there.[6]
