Diane Marie Henderson is an American applied mathematician, specializing in fluid dynamics and mathematical oceanography.
[1] Unusually for a mathematics professor, some of her research involves physical experiments with wave tanks, high speed cameras, and oil droplets.
[2] Henderson earned her Ph.D. in physical oceanography[2] from the University of California, San Diego in 1990.
Her dissertation, Faraday Waves, was supervised by John W.
[3] She is a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University[4] and one of two faculty members leading the William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University.