Angela Mihai

Loredana Angela Mihai is an applied mathematician and numerical analyst. Originally from Romania, she is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cardiff University, and Director of Research and Innovation for the Cardiff University School of Mathematics. She specialises in mathematical modeling of the mechanical properties of soft materials, such as biological tissue.

Education and career
Mihai is from Romania, where she was an undergraduate student. She completed a DPhil in numerical analysis at Durham University in 2005. Her dissertation, A class of alternate strip-based domain decomposition methods for elliptic partial differential equations, was supervised by Alan W. Craig.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Strathclyde, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford, she joined the Cardiff University academic staff as a lecturer in 2011.

Professional service
In 2023, Mihai was elected vice-president of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.