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ASC welcomes Dr. Anastasia MOLCHANOVA

As a new member of the research group of Prof. DAVOLI she will be working on her own Elise Richter project.

Smiling Anastasia Molchanova cleaning the black board

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Dr. Anastasia MOLCHANOVA completed her Ph.D. in December 2016 at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics in Russia. Since then, she has conducted research at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University (Russia), the University of Vienna, and TU Wien (Austria). Her research focuses on geometrical and functional analysis, calculus of variations, PDEs, and their applications in materials science. From 2019 to 2021, she led an FWF Lise Meitner grant at the University of Vienna and TU Wien, and from 2021 to 2024, she was the PI of her own Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND REWIRE project at the University of Vienna. In November 2023, her Elise Richter project titled Quasiconformal Elasticity: Global and Local Behavior of Deformations was approved for funding by FWF. In September 2024, Anastasia joined ASC as a Project Leader and Elise Richter Fellow.