Linda Cummings
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. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Education and career
Cummings read mathematics at the University of Oxford, receiving a bachelor's degree there in 1993, and continuing for a doctorate in 1996. Her dissertation, Free Boundary Models in Viscous Flow, was jointly supervised by John Ockendon and Samuel Dexter Howison.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.