Antoinette Tordesillas
Antoinette A. Tordesillas is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She heads the Micromechanics of Granular Media Group in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Melbourne. Education and career. Tordesillas attended the University of Adelaide where she majored in applied mathematics and physical and inorganic chemistry, and earned a B.S. in 1986. Her honours thesis in applied mathematics involved the development of a model of the hot-dip galvanising process for creating sheet metal. She earned her Ph.D. in solid mechanics in 1992 from the University of Wollongong, with a dissertation involving  the contact mechanics of roller coating, supervised by James Murray Hill. After temporary positions at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Kansas State University, she joined the Melbourne department of mathematics and statistics in 1996. She took on a joint position in geomechanics there in 2013, and was promoted to full professor in 2016. Awards. Tordesillas was awarded the J H Michell Medal in 2000 by the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society. This is an annual award for an outstanding new researcher in applied mathematics.