Dr Louise Olsen-Kettle

Biography

Louise is currently a Vice Chancellor’s Women in STEM fellow in mathematics at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research is in building mathematical and computational models of damage to provide new understanding in forecasting risk and damage in a range of novel materials and resources. Her research is transferable across many industry sectors including composites, manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, and mining. Her major research interests include materials modelling of damage, failure and fracture, and earthquake rupture dynamics. She specialises in large scale numerical simulations of nonlinear partial differential equations.  Louise has a PhD in theoretical and computational physics & chemistry, and has postdoctoral research experience at National Taiwan University and the University of Queensland. She was an ARC Discovery Early Career Research fellow until 2019.  She currently volunteers in the CSIRO STEM professionals in school and the AMSI ChooseMaths mentoring programs.