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'''Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] is a [[scientist]] of Indian origin, and is currently the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics at [[Harvard University]]. His work centers around understanding the organization of matter in space and time (that is, how it is shaped and how it flows, particularly at the scale observable by the unaided senses, in both physical and biological systems).

Mahadevan is a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|2009 MacArthur Fellow]].

==Education==
Mahadevan graduated from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]], and then received an M.S. from the [[University of Texas at Austin]], and an M.S. and Ph.D. from [[Stanford University]] in 1995.

==Career and research==
He started his independent career on the faculty at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1996. In 2000, he was elected the inaugural [[Schlumberger]] Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the [[Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics]], and a professorial fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], [[University of Cambridge]], the first Indian to be appointed professor to the Faculty of Mathematics there.

He has been at Harvard since 2003, where he currently serves as the chair of Applied Mathematics.

Since 2017, together with A. Mahadevan, he has been the faculty dean of [[Mather House (Harvard University)|Mather House]], one of twelve residential houses (with ~400 students) at Harvard College.

===Awards===
* 2016 [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/lakshminarayanan-mahadevan-12884/|title=Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Biography|publisher= Royal Society|access-date= 1 May 2016}}</ref>
* 2014 [https://pcmi.ias.edu/clayseniorscholars Clay Senior Scholar]
* 2009 [[MacArthur Fellow]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/22/4_massachusetts_residents_awarded_macarthur_genius_grants/| title=4 Mass. residents awarded 'genius' grants| work=The Boston Globe| author= Carolyn Y. Johnson| date= 22 September 2009 }}</ref>
* 2006 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/9234-l-mahadevan |title=L. Mahadevan – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |publisher=Gf.org |access-date=2013-03-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305032502/http://www.gf.org/fellows/9234-l-mahadevan |archive-date=2013-03-05 }}</ref>
* 2007 [[Ig Nobel Prize]] for physics<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cerda|first=E.|author2=Mahadevan, L. |title=Conical Surfaces and Crescent Singularities in Crumpled Sheets|journal=Physical Review Letters|year=1998|volume=80|issue=11|pages=2358–2361|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2358|bibcode=1998PhRvL..80.2358C}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2007/oct/05/wrinkle-researchers-bag-physics-ig-nobel |title=Wrinkle researchers bag physics Ig Nobel |publisher=physicsworld.com |access-date=2013-03-15}}</ref>
* 2007 [[Miller Institute|Visiting Miller Professor]], University of California, Berkeley
* 2006 [[George Ledlie Prize]], Harvard University

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.seas.harvard.edu/softmat/ "Recent Publications", ''The Applied Math Lab'']
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iiyj5MsAAAAJ&hl=en "Google Scholar"]
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