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Renuka Ravindran (née Rajagopalan) was the first woman to be the Dean of the
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.


Education and career

She was a student at the Presentation Convent in
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in
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and later at the Women's Christian College in
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. She earned her PhD from
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in Applied Mathematics and later
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from the Technische Hochschule Aachen in Aerodynamics in Germany. She joined the
Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a Public university, public, Deemed university, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The ...
in 1967 as a professor and the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, and then became the Dean of
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. She has also been visiting professor at various universities, including the
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, Germany. Her fields of specialization are nonlinear waves and non-Newtonian fluids.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ravindran, Renuka Indian women academics Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Indian Institute of Science alumni Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science 20th-century Indian mathematicians 1943 births 20th-century Indian women mathematicians