Doreen Thomas
OccupationProfessor of Mechanical Engineering

Doreen Anne Thomas, is a mathematician and electrical and mechanical engineer.[1] She is an emeritus professor of Mechanical Engineering at Melbourne University[2] and director of the start-up company MineOptima.[3]

Career

Thomas earned her BSc from the University of Cape Town, and another from the University of Witwatersrand. At Oxford she earned an MSc and a D.Phil[4] in 1976, with a mathematical dissertation entitled Problems in Functional Analysis supervised by Hilary Priestley.[5] Her mathematical in network analysis work led to her contributions in electrical and mechanical engineering.

As professor in the many engineering schools, in mathematics and statistics[6] and as associate dean of research and research training[6] at Melbourne she has done much to encourage women to be engineers.[6][7] The engineering faculty of Melbourne University honours her work by offering postdoctoral scholarships in her name.[8][7][6] In 2006 she as appointed as the University of Melbourne's first female professor of Engineering.[1] She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Fellow of Engineers Australia.[9] She also has over 150 publications in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.[3]

She commercialised her mining software optimising mine design via her start-up company MineOptima which was acquired by the mining software company RPM.[10] This software, which reduces development time and haulage costs in underground tunnel design, has been licensed to some of the world’s largest mining companies.[1]

Awards

  • In 2011 Thomas was awarded with a Citation for an Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.[3]
  • In 2019 she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.[11]
  • In 2021 she was recognised for her signifincat service to tertiary engineering education and research, and to women, in this that years Queen’s Birthday Honours (see: 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)).[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor Emeritus Doreen Thomas". www.vic.gov.au. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "Search - Doreen A. Thomas". search.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/401-doreen-thomas. Retrieved 10 October 2023. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "Prof Doreen Thomas". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Doreen Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Prof. Emeritus Doreen Thomas Honoured on Queen's Birthday". AMSI. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  7. 1 2 Jones, Nicole (27 October 2020). "Opportunities and challenges for women in engineering and IT". Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women in Engineering (University of Melbourne)". engineeroxy.com. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  9. ↑ "Prof Doreen Thomas". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "AMSI Doreen Thomas:Network optimisation in the access design for underground mines". AMSI Optimise 2019. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  11. ↑ "Victorian Honour Roll of women inductees". www.vic.gov.au. 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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