20 Facts About Daya Reddy

Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy was born on 10 March 1953 and is a South African scientist.

Daya Reddy is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics and served as interim Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town between March 2023 and July 2024.

Daya Reddy served as dean of faculty of science at UCT for seven years from 1999, and thereafter was appointed to the South African Research Chair in Computational and Applied Mechanics.

In 2018, Daya Reddy was elected as first President of the International Science Council.

Daya Reddy's teaching and research activities reflect his multidisciplinary perspectives, which he has pursued largely through the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics at the University of Cape Town, a centre comprising academic staff and their students in five different departments, straddling the engineering disciplines, mathematics, and biomedical sciences.

Daya Reddy has made major contributions to the analysis of problems in solid mechanics, most notably plasticity.

Daya Reddy has developed and analysed new variational formulations, as well as associated solution algorithms, which have been implemented computationally, for both classical and gradient theories.

Daya Reddy is the author, co-author or editor of over 200 publications, including two research monographs, two texts, and three edited volumes of invited papers.

Daya Reddy has supervised to graduation 33 PhD and 36 Masters graduates, as well as 20 post-doctoral researchers.

The second edition includes new material on single-crystal plasticity and strain-gradient plasticity, to which Daya Reddy has made significant contributions.

Daya Reddy was a founder member in 2003, of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, which has grown from the first institute, established in Cape Town, South Africa, to become a pan-African network with centres for graduate education, research and outreach currently in five African countries.

Daya Reddy serves on the AIMS South Africa Council, of which he is a former chair, and is a trustee on the AIMS Trust.

Daya Reddy is a founder member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, and served as its President over the period 2012 - 2016.

Daya Reddy served, over the period 2013 - 2019 as co-chair of IAP-Policy, the arm of the IAP that mobilizes the best scientists and engineers worldwide to provide high-quality, in-depth advice to international organizations and national governments on critical scientific issues.

In July 2018, Daya Reddy was elected the first president of the International Science Council, a body that has resulted from the merger of the International Council for Science and the International Social Science Council, and whose membership includes national and regional scientific organizations from 140 countries and more than 40 international scientific unions and associations.

Daya Reddy has the unique distinction of being an elected fellow or member of all four South African academies: the Academy of Science of South Africa, by legislation of the official academy of South Africa; the South African Academy of Engineering; the Royal Society of South Africa; and the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns.

Daya Reddy is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, of the African Academy of Sciences, and a founding Fellow of the Academy of Engineering and Technology of the Developing World.

Daya Reddy is a recipient of the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from Stellenbosch University; the Award for Research Distinction of the South African Mathematical Society; and the Order of Mapungubwe, awarded by the President of South Africa for distinguished contributions to science.

Daya Reddy received the Georg Forster Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Daya Reddy was elected a Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics in 2008.