Loredana Angela Mihai is an applied mathematician and

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. Originally from Romania, she is Professor of Applied Mathematics at

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, and Director of Research and Innovation for the Cardiff University School of Mathematics. She specialises in mathematical modeling of the mechanical properties of soft materials, such as biological tissue.

Education and career

Mihai is from Romania, and graduated with a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

in 1992. She then worked both as a teaching assistant at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Mathematics and a teacher at a local high school until 1999. In 2000 she completed

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. Mihai earned her DPhil in numerical analysis at

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in 2005. Her dissertation, ''A class of alternate strip-based domain decomposition methods for elliptic partial differential equations'', was supervised by Alan W. Craig. After postdoctoral research at the

University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde () is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal charter in 1964 as the first techn ...

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, and

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, she joined the Cardiff University academic staff as a lecturer in 2011.

Professional service

In 2023, Mihai was elected vice-president of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Section of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mihai, Angela Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Romanian emigrants to the United Kingdom British mathematicians British women mathematicians Academics of Cardiff University University of Bucharest alumni Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Alumni of Grey College, Durham