Elena Koptieva

Education

• PhD, Theoretical physics, Dnipro National University, 2006

Biography

Having grown up on the Northern Baikal coast in Siberia, I was mostly devoted to nature and the arts, including painting, literature, and theater. I moved to Ukraine to enter the university and become a gravitational physicist. Then, my journey led me to the Czech Republic, where I continued my research. And now, here I am in Illinois! Google shows 14,000 km geography of my life. Well, these distances may not be on a cosmological scale just yet, but there is so much more to come!

Academic Positions

• Visiting Research Scientist, Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022-2023
• Research scientist, Institute of Physics and Research Centre of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic, 2016-2022
• Research scientist, Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU, 2015-2017
• Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics Department, Dnipro National University, UA, 2006-2015
• Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, National Mining University, UA, 2003-2006

Other Professional Employment

• Patent Expert, Center of Technology Commercialization, Dnipro, UA, 2001-2003

Research Interests

• General relativity, gravitation, cosmology, exact solutions of Einstein equations, inhomogeneous cosmological models, cosmological black holes

Selected Articles in Journals

• Virial theorem for a cloud of stars obtained from Jeans equations with the second correlation moments. Stupka A. A., Kopteva E. M., Saliuk M. A., Bormotova I. M   (*)(W)

Other Scholarly Activities

• Co-organizer and chairwoman of the Physics and Mathematics Interdisciplinary Seminar, Dnipro, Ukraine, 2009-2012