L. Mahadevan

L. Mahadevan
Mahadevan in 2016
Born
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
Alma mater
SpouseAmala Mahadevan
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorJoseph B. Keller
Websitesoftmath.seas.harvard.edu

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan FRS is an Indian-American scientist. He 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 2009 MacArthur Fellow.