Linda Cummings

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Linda Jane Cummings is a British and American applied mathematician whose research involves the computational study of complex fluids at micro- and nano-scales, with applications including liquid crystals, the manufacture of optical fibers, and the design of ureteral stents.^[1] She is a professor of mathematical sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.^[2]

Education and career

Cummings read mathematics at the University of Oxford, receiving a bachelor's degree there in 1993, and continuing for a doctorate (D.Phil.) in 1996.^[2] Her dissertation, Free Boundary Models in Viscous Flow, was jointly supervised by John Ockendon and Samuel Dexter Howison.^[3]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the École normale supérieure (Paris), she took a faculty position at the University of Nottingham. She moved to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2008.^[2]

Recognition

Cummings was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for wide-ranging and impactful contributions to the theoretical study of low-Reynolds-number free surface flows".^[1][4]