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| name = Renuka Ravindran<br />
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| birth_date =11 May 1943<br />
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| workplaces = [[Indian Institute of Science]]<br />
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| designation = Dean of Indian Institute of Science<br />
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'''Renuka Ravindran''' (née Rajagopalan) was the first woman to be the Dean of the [[Indian Institute of Science]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/renuka.html | title=PROFILE OF PROF. RENUKA RAVINDRAN | publisher=.ias.ac.in | accessdate=26 April 2015}}</ref><br />
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== Education and career==<br />
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She was a student at the Presentation Convent in [[Vepery]] in [[Chennai]] and later at the [[Women's Christian College, Chennai|Women's Christian College]] in [[Chennai]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wcc.edu.in/alumnae/distinguished-alumnae/ | title=DISTINGUISHED ALUMNAE | publisher=Women's Christian College | accessdate=26 April 2015}}</ref> She earned her PhD from [[Indian Institute of Science]] in Applied Mathematics and later [[Doktoringenieur]] from the [[RWTH Aachen University|Technische Hochschule Aachen]] in Aerodynamics in Germany.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://math.iisc.ernet.in/~renrav/ren.html | title=Renuka Ravindran Education | publisher=math.iisc.ernet.in | accessdate=26 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/Studium/Nach-dem-Studium/Alumni/Infos-Forscher-Alumni/Kluge-Koepfe/~dbby/Renuka-Ravindran/lidx/1/ | title=Renuka Ravindran | publisher=RWTH Aachen University | accessdate=26 April 2015}}</ref> She joined the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in 1967 as a professor and the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, and then became the Dean of [[Indian Institute of Science]]. She has also been visiting professor at various universities, including the [[University of Kaiserslautern]], Germany.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040521/asp/guwahati/story_3271232.asp | title=Passionate about taking science to young minds | publisher=The Telegraph | date=21 May 2004 | accessdate=26 April 2015}}</ref> Her fields of specialization are nonlinear waves and non-Newtonian fluids.<br />
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