Education
She completed her doctorate in 1964 from the University College of Wales. Her dissertation concerned fluid mechanics.
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Pauline Driessche
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Her research interests include mathematical biology, matrix analysis, and stability theory. Van den Driessche earned bachelor"s and master"s degrees in 1961 and 1963 respectively from Imperial College London. She stayed on for a year in Wales as an assistant lecturer.
She was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Victoria in 1965, and retired in 2006.
Achievements
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In 2005, the journal Linear Algebra and its Applications published a special issue in her honor. She was the 2007 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, and in the same year became the inaugural Olga Taussky-Todd Lecturer, an award given every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics by the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Association for Women in Mathematics. In 2013 she became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to linear algebra and mathematical biology".
