Nalini Joshi.
The University's first female professor of mathematics and former Head of School, Nalini Joshi, has been elected Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union, the worldwide body representing mathematics. The Payne-Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney, Nalini Joshi, has been elected Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union at its General Assembly in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Professor Joshi, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and former president of the Australian Mathematical Society, is just the second Australian mathematician to be elected to the executive of the IMU and the first elected as Vice-President. After an undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney - where she won the University Medal - Professor Joshi completed her doctorate at Princeton University. She is former Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, the first woman to hold that position. The current Head of School, Professor Jacqui Ramagge, said: "As well as being an outstanding mathematician, Professor Joshi is a visionary pioneer. She was the first female professor of mathematics at the University and our first female Head of School.
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