Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Elena joined UNSW in 2019 as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Engivornmental Engineering and a member of the Centre for Infrastructure and Engineering Safety (CIES). Prior to her appointment at UNSW, Elena held a position of an Assistant Professor at University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2012-2019. Elena's research interests lie in the area of Computational Mechanics and Numerical Methods, with application to fracture mechanics, acoustics, bending and vibration of composite plates.

Education:

MSc in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, 2006

PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010

Teaching:

• CVEN2002 - Civil and Environmental Engineering Computations
• CVEN9802 - Structural Stability

Research Interests:

• Isogeometric and generalized isogeometric analysis
• Boundary element methods
• Shape optimization and inverse problems
• Generalized continuum theories

Publications:

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