Vanessa Robins is an Australian applied mathematician whose research interests include computational topology, image processing, and the structure of granular materials.
[1] Robins earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Australian National University in 1994.
Her dissertation, Computational Topology at Multiple Resolutions: Foundations and Applications to Fractals and Dynamics, was jointly supervised by James D. Meiss and Elizabeth Bradley.
[2] One of Robins's publications, from 1999, is one of the three works that independently introduced persistent homology in topological data analysis.
[3] As well as working on mathematical research, she has collaborated with artist Julie Brooke, of the Australian National University School of Art & Design, on the mathematical visualization of topological surfaces.