Elena Rovenskaya
Program Director and Principal Research Scholar
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Elena Rovenskaya is the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program Director. She is also a research scholar at the Optimal Control Department of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia (on-leave). Her scientific interests lie in the fields of optimization, decision science, and mathematical modeling of complex socio-environmental systems.Dr. Rovenskaya graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. She received her PhD in 2006 at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. In her PhD dissertation, Dr. Rovenskaya developed a new numerical method for solving a broad class of non-convex optimization problems.
In 2005, Dr. Rovenskaya participated in the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). She continued to collaborate with the former Dynamic Systems (DYN) Program from 2006 to 2010, and later, from 2011 to 2012 with its successor, the Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA) Program at IIASA. From 2013 to 2020, Dr. Rovenskaya served as ASA Program Director and from 2019 to 2020, she was also appointed in the capacity of Acting IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program Director.
Dr. Rovenskaya was appointed Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program Director from January 2021 as the institute moved to a new program structure. Currently, the new ASA Program includes 85+ scientists and aims to identify, develop, and deploy new systems-analytical methods, tools, and data that address the most pressing global sustainability challenges with greater agility, and help find solutions to those challenges that are both realistic and appropriate.
Last update: 21 MAY 2021
Publications
Strelkovskii, N. , Rovenskaya, E. , & Ilmola-Sheppard, L. (2015). Integrated socio-economic agent-based model Dream Valley: Case-study of Korea (ИНТЕГРИРОВАННАЯ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ АГЕНТНАЯ МОДЕЛЬ DREAM VALLEY: ПРИМЕР РЕСПУБЛИКИ КОРЕЯ). In: The Seventh All-Russia Scientific-Practical Conference on Simulation and its Application in Science and Industry "Simulation. The Theory and Practice" (IMMOD-2015, 21-23 October 2015, Moscow, Russia.
Xu, X., Gao, J., Cao, G.-Y., Ermoliev, Y., Ermolieva, T., Kryazhimskiy, A.V., & Rovenskaya, E. (2015). Modeling water-energy-food nexus for planning energy and agriculture developments: case study of coal mining industry in Shanxi province, China. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-15-020
Jonas, M. , Żebrowski, P. , & Rovenskaya, E. (2015). A metric for the prognostic outreach of scenarios: Learning from the past to establish a standard in applied systems analysis. In: Proceedings, 4th International Workshop on Uncertainty in Atmospheric Emissions, 7-9 October 2015, Krakow, Poland. pp. 78-89 Warsaw, Poland: Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. ISBN 83-894-7557-X
Kharrazi, A. , Kraines, S., Rovenskaya, E. , Avtar, R., Iwata, S., & Yarime, M. (2015). Examining the Ecology of Commodity Trade Networks using an Ecological Information-Based Approach: Towards Strategic Assessment of Resilience. Journal of Industrial Ecology 19 805-813. 10.1111/jiec.12328.
Jäger, J., Nakicenovic, N. , Fuss, S., K.C., S., Rovenskaya, E. , & Wagner, F. (2015). Special Issue based on IIASA's 40th Anniversary Conference Guest Editorial. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 98 211-212. 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.06.025.