Name: Elena Valentinovna KONSTANTINOVA (MZHEL'SKAYA)
Born: 23.02.1962, Omsk, USSR
Nationality: Russian
Citizenship: Russian Federation
Education
- 1985-1989: Postgraduate studies, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 1984-1985: Predoctoral research, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 1979-1984: Undergraduate studies, Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia
Degrees
- Ph.D.: in 1992 from Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Institute of Organic Chemistry for the thesis "Graphs,
Hypergraphs and their Invariants for Characterization of Molecular Structures" (advisor Dr. V. A. Skorobogatov)
- M.S.: in 1984 from Omsk State University (summa cum laude)
Positions
- 1989, February-1992: Researcher, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 1992, February-present: Senior Researcher, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 2011, March-2014, May: Assistant Professor, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
- 2014, June-present: Associate Professor, Chair of Theoretical Cybernetics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
- 2016, November-2019, October: Deputy Director, International Mathematical Center, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
- 2019, November-2020, November: Leading Researcher, Algebraic combinatorics group leader, Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 2021, January-present: Leading Researcher, Applied abstract algebra group, Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 2023, July-present: Distinguished Professor & Foreign Director, China Three Gorges Mathematical Research Center, Yichang, China
Visiting positions
- 2023, May: Visiting Professor, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
- 2020, February - March: Visiting Professor, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
- 2019, June: Visiting Professor, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
- 2019, April, August: Visiting Professor, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China
- 2019, January: Visiting Professor, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
- 2018, December: Visiting Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- 2018, March - April: Visiting Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- 2018, October: Visiting Professor, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
- 2017, March - April: Visiting Professor, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Sendai, Japan
- 2016, May: Visiting Professor, University of Verona, Department of Computer Science, Verona, Italy
- 2015, October: Visiting Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2015, March - April: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
- 2015, January: Visiting Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2014, January: Visiting Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- 2012, 2013, December: Visiting Professor, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics HAS, Budapest, Hungary
- 2012, May-July: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT), University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Insitute, (UP IAM), Koper, Slovenia
- 2011, March-2012, February: Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, The Republic of Korea
- 2010, July: Visiting Professor, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics HAS, Budapest, Hungary
- 2009, December: Visiting Professor, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
- 2006-2009, November: Visiting Professor, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics HAS, Budapest, Hungary
- 2006, May: Visiting Researcher, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
- 2006, May: Visiting Researcher, Research Center for Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
- 2006, April: Visiting Professor, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (School of Mathematics), Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
- 2005, November: Visiting Professor, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics HAS, Budapest, Hungary
- 2005, July: Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, UK
- 2005, March: Visiting Researcher, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
- 2004, September-October: Visiting Researcher, Department of Informatics and Computational Biology Unit, Bergen University, Norway
- 2004, July: Visiting Professor, Michigan Technological University (MTU), Houghton, Michigan, USA
- 2003, February-April: Visiting Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany
- 2000, March-2001, March: Visiting Researcher, Combinatorial and Computational Mathematics Center, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
Teaching experience:
- Undergraduate and graduate courses at Novosibirsk State University, Russia; at Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea (2011-2012); invited courses of lectures at Institute for Studies and Mathematics, (IPM), Iran (2006); University of Primorska, Slovenia (2012, 2015); Tohoku University, Japan (2016)
- Graduate courses in English at Novosibirsk State University in the frame of the Master Programmes in Applied Mathematics and Stochastics, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Mentoring of B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. students of Chairs of Theoretical Cybernetics at Novosibirsk; my students were awarded by Lyapunov Prize and Scholarship in 2011, 2012, 2016 and selected for the final round of the Alan Turing Contest in Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics in 2016
Research grants
Supervisor and individual:
- 2023-2024: Grant No.23-21-00459 supported by the Russian Science Foundation: Dominating invariants and distance invariants of graphs
- 2019-2020: Agreement No.075-15-2019-1613 with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: Algebraic combinatorics and combinatorial algebra: theory and algorithms
- 2017-2019: International Grant RFBR-17-51-560008 supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Iran National Science Foundation: Algebraic and combinatorial methods in graph theory
- 2016-2018: Bilateral scientific-research cooperation between Republic of Slovenia and Russia: On odd automorphisms in vertex-transitive (di)graphs
- 2014-2015: Bilateral Scientific-Research Cooperation between Republic of Slovenia and Russia: Cycles and Paths in Symmetric Graphs
- 2005-2013: Collaborative Grant of Russian Academy of Science and Hungarian Academy of Science: Investigation of Combinatorial and Geometric Structures: Graphs, Sequences, Orbifolds
- 2005: Collaborative Small Grant of London Mathematical Society
Participant:
- 2021-2024: Agreement No.075-15-2022-281 with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: Applied abstract algebra
- 2020-2021: International Grant supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and National Natural Science Foundation of China RFBR-20-51-53023:
Extremal problems in spectral graph theory
- 2018-2020: Grant RFBR-18-01-0042015: Automorphisms and branched coverings of manifolds and graphs
- 2018-2020: Grant RFBR-18-01-00353: Investigation of structural properties of graphs, hypergraphs and graphs on groups
- 2018-2019: International Grant supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and National Research Foundation of Korea RFBR-18-501-51021: Graphs, Riemann surfaces and their coverings
- 2015-2017: Grant RFBR-15-01-07906: Groups of automorphisms and branched coverings of low-dimensional manifolds
- 2015-2017: Grant RFBR-15-01-05867: Investigation of discrete structures: planar graphs, hypergraphs, Cayley graphs
- 2012-2014: Interdisciplinary Integration Project of Fundamental Investigations of SB RAS N.21: Investigation of Regularities and Trends of Self-Organizing Systems on the Examples of the Web-space and Biological Communities
- 2012-2014: Grant RFBR-12-01-00448: Fundamental Problem of Finite Graph Theory
- 2009-2011: Grant RFBR-09-01-00244: Graph Colorings and Applications
- 2006-2008: Grant RFBR-06-01-00694: Homomorphisms and Embeddings of Graphs
- 2004-2006: Grant RFBR-04-01-00112: Reconstruction of Graphs
- 2004-2005: Grant of National Science Foundation No. CCR--0310832: U.S.-Russian Collaborative Research
- 2003-2005: Grant RFBR-03-01-00796: Selected Problems of Graph Theory
- 2002-2004: Grant RFBR-02-01-01118: Invariants, Coverings and Groups of Three-Dimensional Orbifolds
- 2002-2004: Grant of Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University: Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics
- 1997-1999: Grant of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (number 12): Creation of Methods, Algorithms and Programmes for Computer Prognosis of Chemical Compounds Properties by Molecular Graph Fragments
- 1996: Grant of RFBR-96-03-33067: Investigation and Development of Methods of the Topological Analysis of Organoelement Compounds
- 1995-1997: Grant of RFBR-95-01-01410: Invariants of 3-Dimensional Orbifolds and Spatial Graphs
- 1994-1998: Grant of Russian Academy of Sciences (number 10.2.1): New Principles and Methods for Creation of Chemical Compounds and Materials
- 1993-1995: Grant of RFBR-93-03-18657: Investigation and Development of Methods of the Topological Analysis of Chemical Compounds
- 1992-1993: Grant of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (number 31.2-3): Chemical Information
- 1990-1992: Grant of Russian Academy of Sciences (number 29.5): Analysis
Talks at universities and research institutions:
- 2023: Mathematical Seminar of Faculty of Science, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey; SIM Mathematical Colloquium Series, Novosibirsk, Russia;
Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, UB RAS, Yekaterinburg, Russia
- 2022: Computer Science Colloquium Series, Luddy School of Informatics, Indiana University, USA
- 2019: Department of Mathematics, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea; Three Gorges Mathematical Research Center,
China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China; Central South University, Changsha, China; Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- 2018: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; University of Science and Technology of China & Anhui University, Hefei, China;
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China; Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China; South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China;
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
- 2017: Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Sendai, Japan; University of Tokyo, School of Science, Japan
- 2016: Seminario del Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Verona, Italy;
Mathematical Colloquium, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2015: Seminar on Finite Groups, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan;
Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT), University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia;
Mathematical Colloquium, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
Seminar on Groups and Geometries, University of Naples, Italy
- 2014: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT), University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
- 2013: Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary
- 2012: Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea; Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT),
University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
- 2011: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea; Department of Mathematics, College of Science,
Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea;
Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research at Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- 2010: ZIF, October, Universitat Bielefeld, Germany
- 2009: Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Russia
- 2008: Department of Algebra at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, (BUTE), Budapest, Hungary
- 2007: School of Mathematics, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran;
Department of Algebra at Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia
- 2006: School of Mathematics, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran; Department of Algebra at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
(BUTE), Budapest, Hungary
- 2005: School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Department of Algebra, Novosibirsk State Education University, Russia; Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics HAS, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Russia;
Seminar "Evariste Galois", Novosibirsk State University, Russia
- 2004: Technological University (MTU), USA; Department of Informatics and Computational Biology Unit, Bergen University, Norway
- 2002-2003: Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany
- 2000-2001: Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
- 1992-1995: Institute of Organic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 1990-1992: Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Moscow, Russia; Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
- 1984: Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia