Penny J. Davies
Scottish mathematician
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Penelope Jane Davies OBE is a Scottish mathematician who in 2009 became the second female president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, after Elizabeth McHarg.[1][2] Her research involves numerical simulation of the partial differential equations describing wave scattering and elastic stability and biomechanical modelling. She is a senior lecturer in mathematics and statistics at the University of Strathclyde.[3]
Education and career
Davies earned her Ph.D. in 1987 from Heriot-Watt University under the supervision of John MacLeod Ball;[4] her dissertation was Stability problems in nonlinear elasticity.[5] She was on the staff of the University of Dundee before moving to the University of Strathclyde.[6]
She was the President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society from 2009 to 2011.[1][2]
Recognition
Davies was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire "for services to mathematics" in the 2014 Birthday Honours.[7]