Ngamta Thamwattana

Ngamta "Natalie" Thamwattana is a Thai mathematician who works in Australia as associate professor of mathematics and applied statistics at the University of Wollongong.[1] In 2014 she won the J. H. Michell Medal of ANZIAM for her "pioneering contributions in the areas of granular materials and nanotechnology".[2]

Thamwattana came from Chumphon Province in Thailand, where her mother made dresses and her father worked in the police. After her first year of university, her high test scores in science and mathematics earned her a government scholarship with full tuition and, later, support for doctoral studies abroad.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Mahidol University in Thailand in 2000, choosing mathematics because as a mathematician she wouldn't "have to play with the chemical stuffs and we didn't have to kill rat or any insects".[1] She completed her Ph.D. at Wollongong in 2004 under the supervision of James Murray Hill.[4]

After completing her studies, she returned the money from her Thai scholarship in order to stay in Australia with her new husband, a lecturer at Wollongong.[3] She joined the Wollongong faculty herself, and founded the Nanomechanics Group there.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Faculty profile, University of Wollongong, retrieved 2016-10-13.
  2. 1 2 "Winner of the 2014 J.H. Michell Medal" (PDF), ANZIAM awards, retrieved 2016-10-13
  3. 1 2 Cambourne, Keeli, Against the odds: A young, village girl from Thailand, with a passion for mathematics proved that it doesn’t matter where you come from, you can change the world, University of Wollongong, retrieved 2016-10-13
  4. ↑ Ngamta Thamwattana at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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