{"id":2216,"date":"2021-11-03T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:10:13","slug":"elena-rovenskaya-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/03\/elena-rovenskaya-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rovenskaya: Candidacy for CODATA Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the second in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/events\/general-assembly\/general-assembly-2021\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Assembly to be held on 15-16 November, 2021.<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Elena Rovenskaya is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i>She was nominated by Russia.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Elena-Rovenskaya.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2217 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Elena-Rovenskaya-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Elena-Rovenskaya-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Elena-Rovenskaya.png 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Elena Rovenskaya is Principal Research Scholar and Director of the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/web\/asa.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/web\/asa.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. She is also Research Scholar at the Optimal Control Department of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia (currently on leave).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broadly, Elena Rovenskaya\u2019s scientific interests lie in the fields of optimization, decision science, and mathematical modeling of complex socio-environmental systems. As one important avenue, recently, she has been focusing her research on using qualitative and quantitative methods to support decisions in settings dominated by uncertainty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In line with her research interests, Elena Rovenskaya has been an active <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">member of the CODATA Task Group \u201cAdvanced mathematical tools for data-driven applied systems analysis\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/initiatives\/task-groups\/applied-systems-analysis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/codata.org\/initiatives\/task-groups\/applied-systems-analysis\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which is one important channel through which CODATA collaborates with IIASA. As part of this Task Group\u2019s activity, recently Elena Rovenskaya organized a workshop at IIASA that aimed to facilitate a dialogue with modelers and systems analysts on Open Data and Open Models<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/web\/home\/research\/researchPrograms\/AdvancedSystemsAnalysis\/200224-codata.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/web\/home\/research\/researchPrograms\/AdvancedSystemsAnalysis\/200224-codata.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her work of the ASA Program Director, Elena Rovenskaya leads a highly international team of about 90 researchers who focus their efforts on innovating in terms of methods, approaches, and data to be used to support the transition to sustainability. ASA research is highly interdisciplinary and often transdisciplinary with many projects involving policymakers and citizens. As one example, Elena Rovenskaya co-leads a project that looks into patterns of COVID-19 spread <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/web\/home\/about\/210205-IIASA-RFBR-pandemic-research.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/web\/home\/about\/210205-IIASA-RFBR-pandemic-research.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elena Rovenskaya\u2019s personal statement on the motivation to be considered for the role of an Ordinary Executive Committee Member:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am interested in this role because I am very much interested in facilitating a stronger linkage between data and modeling that serves to support decisions related to sustainability at global, national, and local scales. Modeling and policy demands pose specific needs and challenges in regard to data that should feed into models, such as inter-operability, validation, non-numeric data \u2013 to name just a few. Private sector holds a wealth of data that could be used for sustainability research. Finding ways to use these data in the interests of the society is another important challenge.\u00a0 I feel that my understanding of the current trends in systems analysis, disciplines that deal with the transition to sustainability, and policy implementation research can contribute to strengthening CODATA\u2019s mission to promote international collaboration to advance Open Science and to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at the General Assembly to be held on 15-16 November, 2021. Elena Rovenskaya is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.\u00a0She was nominated by Russia. Elena Rovenskaya is Principal Research Scholar and Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codata-elections-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}