Deborah Frank Lockhart
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- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Deborah Frank Lockhart | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | National Science Foundation |
| Thesis | Dynamic buckling of imperfection-sensitive structures (1974) |
Deborah Frank Lockhart is a mathematician known for her work with the National Science Foundation.
Lockhart graduated in 1965 from the Bronx High School of Science.[1] She received her BS in mathematics from New York University,[2] and went on to receive her Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the area of continuum mechanics.[3]
Lockhart went on to work at SUNY Geneseo before moving to Michigan Technological University in 1976.[2] She began working as a program director at the National Science Foundation in 1988, later becoming a deputy division director and acting division director before, in 2016, being named deputy assistant director of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.[4]