Research Focus
- Computational mechanics
- Mathematical modelling of materials and structures
- Optimisation of materials and structures
- Applications including robotics and tissue engineering
Summary
Dr Vivien Challis completed her PhD in Mathematics at The University of Queensland in 2009. Her research interests lie in structural optimisation, computational mechanics and high performance computing. After completing her PhD, Dr Challis was employed at The University of Queensland in a number of roles including as a postdoctoral research fellow, lecturer, and finally as an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (APD, funded by the Australian Research Council). Dr Challis joined Queensland University of Technology in May 2019 as a Lecturer in Applied and Computational Mathematics. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in November 2021.
Dr Challis developed and teaches the first-year calculus unit MXB105 at QUT. She is the inaugural Director of QUT’s Mathematics Summer School for high-school students.
Dr Challis is currently lead Chief Investigator of a 2022 Australian Research Council Discovery Project that aims to optimise piezoelectric metamaterials for robotics applications. For information on Dr Challis’s research outputs, see her profiles on Publons, Scopus, Google Scholar or ORCID.