Nalini Joshi

Nalini Joshi
AO
Nalini Joshi AO
	Nalini Joshi in 2014
Born	Yangon, Myanmar
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Princeton University
Known for	Research in integrable systems
Awards	Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2008); Georgina Sweet Fellowship (2012); Hardy Lecturer (2015); Officer of the Order of Australia (2016); George Szekeres Medal (2020); ANZIAM Medal (2021);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, integrable systems
Institutions	University of Sydney ; University of Adelaide ; University of New South Wales
Thesis	The Connection Problem for the First and Second Painlevé Transcendents (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Martin David Kruskal

Nalini Joshi AO is an Australian mathematician. She is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, the first woman in the School to hold this position, and is a past-president of the Australian Mathematical Society. Joshi is a member of the School's Applied Mathematics Research Group. Her research concerns integrable systems. She was awarded the Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2012. Joshi is also the Vice-President of the International Mathematical Union, and is the first Australian to hold this position.