Project manager, Business Development , Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering

Dr Vera Hazelwood joined the Smith Institute in 2005. She holds a PhD in Applied Optics from the University of Southampton, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Kiev State Shevchenko University. Vera's technical areas of expertise are the mathematical modelling of complex systems, optics of liquid crystals, nonlinear phenomena, numerical methods for solving differential and integral equations and Monte-Carlo techniques.

Vera holds a PRINCE2™ Practitioner qualification in project management, an ISEB ISTQB certificate in Software Testing, and won the Institute of Physics prize for Best PhD Thesis in Computational Physics in 2006. Vera was awarded Best Newcomer in the 2010 Impact Awards for her role in managing the expansion of Industrial Maths Internships and in September 2012 was appointed to the Chair of the IoP's Computational Physics Group Committee.