Suzanne Marie Lenhart (born November 19, 1954)[1] is an American mathematician who works in partial differential equations, optimal control and mathematical biology.
She is a Chancellor's Professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee,[2] an associate director for education and outreach at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, and a part-time researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
She entered graduate school at the University of Kentucky not knowing what she would specialize in, but in her second year chose partial differential equations.
[4] She completed her doctorate in 1981 under the supervision of Lawrence C. Evans,[5] and immediately took a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Tennessee.
[4] Lenhart was AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer in 1997,[6] president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2001–2003,[7] and AWM/SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer in 2010 "in recognition of her significant research in partial differential equations, ordinary differential equations, and optimal control".