Ep 20: Dr. Radha Kessar – Self Doubt is a Reality, Experiences of an Award Winning Mathematician

She is a professor in pure mathematics  at  the University of Manchester, having previously  been a professor at City, University of London and the University of Aberdeen. She is the only woman to have been a professor of  mathematics at the University of Aberdeen.

Earlier in her career,  Radha held a Weir  Junior  Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford.  Her career has spanned  both sides of the  Atlantic,  and she has  held positions at The Ohio State University, The University of Minnesota  and Yale University.    Besides research and teaching, Radha serves on the board of several  prestigious  international  mathematics journals and has co authored the book “Fusion Systems in Algebra and Topology”.

Radha has won the  Berwick prize of  the London Mathematical Society, the first woman recipient  since the prize’s inception  in 1946. Other honors include a Simon’s Visiting Professorship at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in  Berkeley, and an invited lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians.

Key themes emerging out of our conversation: