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{{Short description|Indian-American mathematician}}
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* [[Biology]]
* [[Physics]]
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* [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
* [[Cambridge University]]
* [[Harvard University]]
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* [[IIT Madras]] ([[Bachelor of Technology|B.Tech.]], 1986)
* [[University of Texas at Austin]] ([[Master of Science|M.S.]], 1987)
* [[Stanford University]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]], 1995)
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| thesis_title = Folding sheets, twisted strips and coiling ropes
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* [[Guggenheim Fellow]] (2006)
* [[MacArthur Fellow]](2009)
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (2016)
* Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2023)
* Member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2026)
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{{Indian name|Mahadevan|Lakshminarayanan}}'''Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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 Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] and an elected member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] as well as the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].

==Education==
Mahadevan graduated from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]], and then received an M.S. from the [[University of Texas at Austin]], and an M.S. and Ph.D. from [[Stanford University]] in 1995.

==Career and research==
He started his independent career on the faculty at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1996. In 2000, he was elected the inaugural [[Schlumberger]] Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the [[Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics]], and a professorial fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], [[University of Cambridge]], the first Indian to be appointed professor to the Faculty of Mathematics there. He has been at Harvard since 2003.

Since 2017, he and his wife Amala Mahadevan have been faculty deans of [[Mather House (Harvard University)|Mather House]], one of twelve residential houses at Harvard College.

===Awards===
* 2026 Elected member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]<ref>{{cite web |title=National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members |url=https://www.nasonline.org/news/2026-nas-election/ |publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences]] |access-date=30 April 2026}}</ref>
* 2023 Elected fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2023/04/mahadevan-elected-american-academy-arts-sciences|title=Mahadevan elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences|publisher=Harvard|access-date=21 April 2023}}</ref>
* 2016 [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/lakshminarayanan-mahadevan-12884/|title=Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Biography|publisher= Royal Society|access-date= 1 May 2016}}</ref>
* 2014 Clay Senior Scholar<ref>{{cite web |title=2014 Archives |url=https://www.claymath.org/year_type/2014/ |publisher=[[Clay Mathematics Institute]] |access-date=30 April 2026}}</ref>
* 2009 [[MacArthur Fellow]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/22/4_massachusetts_residents_awarded_macarthur_genius_grants/| title=4 Mass. residents awarded 'genius' grants| work=The Boston Globe| author= Carolyn Y. Johnson| date= 22 September 2009 }}</ref>
* 2006 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/9234-l-mahadevan |title=L. Mahadevan – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |publisher=Gf.org |access-date=2013-03-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305032502/http://www.gf.org/fellows/9234-l-mahadevan |archive-date=2013-03-05 }}</ref>
* 2007 [[Ig Nobel Prize]] for physics<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cerda|first=E.|author2=Mahadevan, L. |title=Conical Surfaces and Crescent Singularities in Crumpled Sheets|journal=Physical Review Letters|year=1998|volume=80|issue=11|pages=2358–2361|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2358|bibcode=1998PhRvL..80.2358C}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2007/oct/05/wrinkle-researchers-bag-physics-ig-nobel |title=Wrinkle researchers bag physics Ig Nobel |date=5 October 2007 |publisher=physicsworld.com |access-date=2013-03-15}}</ref>
* 2007 [[Miller Institute|Visiting Miller Professor]], University of California, Berkeley
* 2006 [[George Ledlie Prize]], Harvard University

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.seas.harvard.edu/softmat/ "Recent Publications", ''The Applied Math Lab'']
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iiyj5MsAAAAJ&hl=en "Google Scholar"]
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