Ekaterina Lgotina

Personal Information

Name: Ekaterina Lgotina
Born: August 27, 1996 (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Email: kate[dot]lgotina[at]gmail[dot]com (or you can use Contact page)

About Me

I am currently a PhD student at Durham University (Durham, UK).

Last year I assisted Professor Jeroen van Hunen and Professor Stefan Nielsen in teaching Modelling Earth Processes, Dr Fabian Wadsworth in teaching Further Mathematics for Geosciences and Professor Jim McElwaine in teaching Hazardous Geophysical Flows from Advanced Geophysics Flows (the Department of Earth Sciences).

Before that, I worked as a Junior Researcher in the Laboratory of Digital and Intelligent Hydrocarbon Production Systems at the Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2017-2021) and then as a Junior Researcher at the Scientific and Educational centre Gazpromneft—NSU (2021).

The other project I was involved in focused on investigating magma dykes propagation.

My previous research was focused on investigating the direct modelling of hydraulic fracturing in a poroelastic medium application for a more accurate estimation of the physical properties of the reservoir, using mini-frac test data. 

I also taught the courses "Introduction to Continuum Mechanics" at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics and "Fundamentals of Functional Analysis" at the Department of Physics at Novosibirsk State University. 

I gained my BSc (2018) and MSc (2020) in Mechanics and Mathematical Modelling from Novosibirsk State University, where I was supervised by Prof Sergey V. Golovin (Chief Researcher, Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics). 

I have also been investigating optima localization problems for various routing open shop models, under the supervision of Prof I. D. Chernykh (Senior Researcher, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics). 

Outside of work, I am a professional YoYo player and a member of the International YoYo Team “ILYY” (Hobbies). Also, I was an active participant in the Business Case Championships and have experience as a project manager in IT startups.

For more information about my research, please click on Publications and CV