Vivien Kirk

Vivien Kirk is a New Zealand mathematician who studies dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland, where she also serves as associate dean,^[2] and was president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society for 2017–2019.^[3]

Vivien Kirk
Vivien Kirk in 1990
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Auckland University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Nigel Weiss
Academic work
Doctoral students	Alona Ben-Tal[1]

Education and career

After earning bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Auckland, Kirk went to the University of Cambridge for doctoral studies.^[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1990; her dissertation, Destruction of tori in dissipative flows, was supervised by Nigel Weiss.^[4]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and at the California Institute of Technology.^[2] Kirk's notable students include Alona Ben-Tal.^[5]

Books

Kirk is the co-author of the books Mathematical Analysis of Complex Cellular Activity (Springer, 2015) and Models of Calcium Signalling (Springer, 2016).

Recognition

In 2017, Kirk won the Miriam Dell Excellence in Science Mentoring Award of New Zealand's Association for Women in the Sciences, in part for her efforts in founding and running a series of annual workshops for young women in mathematics and physics since 2007.^[6]