 | Daya Reddy |
Daya Reddy, born in 1953 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, holds the South African Research Chair in Computational Mechanics at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and is Director of the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM) at UCT. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at UCT in 1973 and the PhD degree from Cambridge University in 1977. Following a post-doctoral period at University College London he returned to UCT in 1979, and has held positions there in civil engineering and applied mathematics. He is currently a member of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.
Daya Reddy served as Dean of the Faculty of Science between 1999 and 2005. He is a fellow of four national academies in South Africa, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (TWAS), and of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM). In 2004 he was awarded the National Order of Mapungubwe by the President of South Africa, and in 2009 he received the Award for Distinguished Service by the South African Association for Computational and Applied Mechanics, and the Award for Outstanding Research of the First African Conference on Computational Mechanics. He has held visiting positions at universities in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the USA.
His research interests lie at the intersection of continuum mechanics, partial differential equations and variational methods, and numerical analysis and computation. Typical research programmes are concerned with the formulation of problems in continuum mechanics as systems of partial differential equations or inequalities or as variational problems; studies of their well-posedness; and the construction and analysis of approximate solutions, using approaches such as the finite element method.
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