Anita Mehta

Anita Mehta
Born	Calcutta
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Oxford University
Known for	Granular Physics
Awards	Rhodes Scholarship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Fellowship of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	University of Oxford

Anita Mehta (born Calcutta) is an Indian physicist and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.

Life

After her B.Sc. in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta, Mehta went to Oxford as the second Indian woman Rhodes Scholar to St Catherine's College, Oxford University, graduating with an MA and a DPhil in Theoretical Physics. She then did postdoctoral work at IBM, following this with a Research Associateship under the mentorship of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, when she pioneered the field of granular physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Mehta was elected India's first Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard in 2006 and in 2007, awarded the Fellowship of the American Physical Society. Mehta has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Leipzig, the Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences among others. She has been an Academic Visitor of Somerville College, Oxford.

Works

• Anita Mehta Granular Physics. Cambridge University Press. 28 June 2007. ISBN 978-1-139-46531-1.
• Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 ISBN 978-1-4612-4290-1