Jennifer Ann Scott FIMA (née Dixon, born 1960)[1][2] is a British mathematician specialising in numerical analysis, sparse matrix computations, and parallel computing.
She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Reading, where she directs the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth,[3] and a Group Leader and Individual Merit Research Fellow for the Science and Technology Facilities Council at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
from the University of Oxford in 1984; her dissertation was A unified analysis of discretisation methods and was supervised by J. Sean McKee.
[4][1][5] She worked as a junior research fellow in St. John's College, Oxford, and then at the National Radiological Protection Board,[4] becoming a finalist for the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1986.
[4] Scott is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.