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Elena Koptieva is a Visiting Research Specialist (Teaching and Research) in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds an interdisciplinary background with prior roles including Associate Professor at Dnipro National University (2006-2015) and Visiting Researcher positions at institutions in the Czech Republic and Russia. Her research focuses on exact solutions in general relativity, particularly cosmological black holes and inhomogeneous models. She has taught courses such as University Physics: Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism, and Relativity & Math Applications.
Education:
- PhD, Theoretical Physics, Dnipro National University (2006)
Research Interests: General relativity, gravitation, cosmology, exact solutions of Einstein equations, cosmological black holes, and inhomogeneous cosmological models. Her work bridges gravitational physics and cosmological phenomena, exploring how black holes interact with expanding universes and the dynamics of non-uniform spacetime structures.
Professional Activities: Co-organizer of the Physics and Mathematics Interdisciplinary Seminar (Dnipro, 2009-2012) and Astrophysics, Gravitation, and Cosmology Seminar at UIUC (2024-2025). Member of ICASU, APS DGRAV, and the LISA Consortium.
