Dr. Anita Mehta, born in Calcutta, India, is a physicist and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3]
Anita Mehta | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Known for | Granular Physics |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholarship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Fellowship of the American Physical Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford, Radcliffe Institute |
Education and Work Experience
editAfter her B.Sc. in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta, Mehta went to Oxford as the second Indian woman Rhodes Scholar[4] to St Catherine's College, Oxford University, graduating with an M.A. and a DPhil in Theoretical Physics.[5]
She then did postdoctoral work at IBM, following this with a Research Associateship under the mentorship of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, when she worked in the field of granular physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.[6] Mehta was elected India's first Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard[7] in 2007-8 and was awarded the Fellowship of the American Physical Society.[8] Mehta has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Leipzig, the Institut de Physique Theorique (France) and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences,[9] among others.[5] She has been an Academic Visitor of Somerville College, Oxford.
Mehta had a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford as faculty of the Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics until 2019. There, she works on modelling speech perception and the dynamical evolution of language and grammatical forms.
Works
edit- Her main areas of work include granular media, complex systems, glassy dynamics in soft matter, optimization, statistical physics in an interdisciplinary context, and nonlinear dynamics.[10]
- Mehta has written 3 books and 142 papers published.
- Anita Mehta Granular Physics. Cambridge University Press. 28 June 2007. ISBN 978-1-139-46531-1.
- Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 ISBN 978-1-4612-4290-1[11]
References
edit- ^ "Anita Mehta | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics". www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ "Visiting Professorships | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ a b "Anita Mehta | University of Oxford - Academia.edu". oxford.academia.edu. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "At Cambridge, work's in progress". Calcutta Telegraph. 12 January 2008. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.
- ^ "Anita Mehta". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Bioinformatics Leipzig - People". www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "anita mehta". people.bose.res.in. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach | Anita Mehta | Springer.