Nageswari Shanmugalingam is Distinguished Research Professor (STEMM) at the University of Cincinnati in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Nages obtained her Ph.D. under the direction of Juha Heinonen in 1999 at the University of Michigan. Her areas of research are Analysis in Metric Measure Spaces, Geometric Function Theory, and Nonlinear Potential Theory. Her current research interests include p-harmonic functions, BV functions and least gradient, Besov spaces, and utilizing Gromov hyperbolicity to connect Besov spaces to Newton-Sobolev spaces.

Nages has authored or co-authored 99 research articles and one research monograph; she has directed 6 PhD students and has mentored 11 postdoctoral scholars. In her spare time she enjoys reading, Asian art and history.

Nages is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.