Claire Postlethwaite
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. Her research involves heteroclinic networks in dynamical systems and delay differential equations, and their varied applications including neuroscience, evolutionary robotics, animal migration, and climate modelling.
Education and career
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. Her dissertation, Robust Heteroclinic Cycles and Networks, was supervised by J. H. P. Dawes.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; she is now a full professor there.