Diana Maria Thomas is an American applied mathematician known for her research on nutrition and body weight.
[1][2][3] She is a professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy (West Point).
[4] Topics in Thomas's research have included a comparison of the effects of dieting and exercise on weight loss,[1] the effects of weight loss on pregnancy,[2] epidemiological approaches to obesity,[3] the use of biometric data to predict military training injuries,[9] and a statistical comparison of the body types of military recruits with Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
The award recognized her "dedication to teaching, her untiring devotion and concern for students, her work with students outside the classroom, her commitment to undergraduate research, and her classroom experimentation based on learning and human motivational literature".
[6] She was awarded the 2023 AMS Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research "for her outstanding research at the interface of mathematics with nutrition and obesity; her work in number theory, combinatorics, and dynamical systems; and her impressive work with undergraduates.