Amel Ben Abda
Alma materPreparatory Institute for Engineering Studies of Nabeul
National Engineering School of Tunis
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Engineering School of Tunis
Thesis (1993)

Amel Ben Abda is a professor of mathematics at the National Engineering School of Tunis. She was the first person in Tunisia to earn a PhD in applied mathematics. She is the Tunisian representative of the steering committee of the International Laboratory for Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics on the advisory board of the Tunisian Woman Mathematician Association.

Early life and education

Ben Abda studied applied mathematics at the National Engineering School of Tunis, graduating in 1988.[1] After her degree, she worked in the Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies of Nabeul.[2] She went on to earn the first PhD in Applied Mathematics in Tunisia in 1993.[3][4]

Research and career

In the field of applied mathematics, Ben Abda has worked on a "reciprocity gap" method that can be used as an indication of defects in materials.[5][6][7][8] She also works on the problem of reconstructing boundary conditions from incomplete data.[9]

In 1993, Ben Abda joined the Preparatory Institute for Scientific and Technical Studies, where she was promoted to assistant professor that same year.[2] In 1999 she joined the National Engineering School of Tunis.[2] She defended Tunisia's first habilitation in 1998.[1] She is responsible for the inverse theorems team at the Laboratory of Mathematical Modelling and Numeric in Engineering Sciences (LAMSIN).[10]

She is the Tunisian representative of the steering committee of the International Laboratory for Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics.[3] She is on the advisory board of the Tunisian Woman Mathematician Association (TWMA).[11][12] The TWMA give an annual award for the best PhD thesis in mathematics.[13]

In 2018 she was selected as one of OkayAfrica's Top 100 Women.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Amel Ben Abda | European Women in Mathematics". europeanwomeninmaths.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  2. 1 2 3 "Representative of Tunisia in the Steering Committee of LIRIMA" (PDF). LIRIMA. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  3. 1 2 3 "Amel Ben Adba". OKAYAFRICA's 100 WOMEN. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  4. ↑ "Tunisian Women Mathematicians' Association" (PDF). 2016. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  5. ↑ Andrieux, S.; Ben Abda, A. (1993-09-01). "The reciprocity gap: a general concept for flaws identification problems". Mechanics Research Communications. 20 (5): 415–420. doi:10.1016/0093-6413(93)90032-J. ISSN 0093-6413.
  6. ↑ Abda, Amel Ben (2004). On the use of the Reciprocity-Gap functional in inverse scattering from planar cracks (Thesis). INRIA.
  7. ↑ BEN ABDA, AMEL; DELBARY, FABRICE; HADDAR, HOUSSEM (October 2005). "On the Use of the Reciprocity-Gap Functional in Inverse Scattering from Planar Cracks" (PDF). Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences. 15 (10): 1553–1574. doi:10.1142/s0218202505000819. ISSN 0218-2025. S2CID 122788633.
  8. ↑ Defect and material mechanics : proceedings of the International Symposium on Defect and Material Mechanics (ISDMM), held in Aussois, France, March 25-29, 2007. Dascalu, Cristian; Maugin, Gérard A.; Stolz, Claude. Dordrecht: Springer. 2008. ISBN 9781402069291. OCLC 261325816.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ↑ "Profil". www.hal.tn. Archived from the original on 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  10. ↑ "ENIT - LAMSIN". www.lamsin.rnu.tn. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  11. ↑ "Amel Ben Abda | African Women in Mathematics Association". africanwomeninmath.org. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  12. ↑ "TWMA Advisory Board". TUNISIAN WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS ASSOCIATION TWMA. 2016-11-30. Archived from the original on 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  13. ↑ "TWMA AWARD for the Best PhD Thesis in Mathematics" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-06-12.
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