{"id":2573,"date":"2023-10-16T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2023-10-16T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:38:01","slug":"elena-rovenskaya-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee-ordinary-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/16\/elena-rovenskaya-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee-ordinary-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rovenskaya: Candidacy for CODATA Executive Committee Ordinary Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Copy-of-rovenska_iiasa_website-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2583\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Copy-of-rovenska_iiasa_website-1-225x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This is the eighth 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-2023\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Assembly to be held on 27-28 October 2023<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 Elena Rovenskaya is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i>She was nominated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elena Rovenskaya is Principal Research Scholar and Director of the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program\u00a0<\/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;\">\u00a0at 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;\">Elena Rovenskaya served as Ordinary Member of CODATA Executive Committee in 2021-2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elena Rovenskaya has a background in applied mathematics and computer science. Broadly, her 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 her work as the ASA Program Director, Elena Rovenskaya leads a highly international team of more than 100 researchers who focus their efforts on innovating in terms of methods, approaches, and data to be used to support sustainability transformation. ASA research is highly interdisciplinary and often transdisciplinary with many projects involving policymakers and citizens. As one example, Elena Rovenskaya leads Transformations within Reach project that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aims to put forward recommendations on\u00a0how\u00a0decision-making\u00a0systems and processes can be improved to catalyze sustainability transformations and identify effective levers of change for this: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/projects\/TwR\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/projects\/TwR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In line with her research interests, Elena Rovenskaya was an active\u00a0member of the CODATA Task Group \u201cAdvanced mathematical tools for data-driven applied systems analysis\u201d\u00a0<\/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;\">,\u00a0which operated in 2021-2023.\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 interoperability, 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\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During my first term as Ordinary Member of CODATA Executive Committee (2021-2023), I learnt a lot on how CODATA works towards fulfilling its mission. As one highlight, during this period, I contributed to the development of the CODATA Strategic Plan, which was successfully finalized under the leadership of CODATA President and CODATA Executive Director.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel that my expertise in systems analysis, sustainability science, and international scientific collaboration, combined with my understanding of CODATA and challenges &amp; opportunities associated with making research data FAIR will enable me to continue making a positive contribution to the proceedings of CODATA for another term as Ordinary Executive Committee Member.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the eighth in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at the General Assembly to be held on 27-28 October 2023.\u00a0 Elena Rovenskaya is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.\u00a0She was nominated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.\u00a0 Elena Rovenskaya is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codata-elections-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","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=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}