Ekaterina Kostina
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Ekaterina Arkad'evna Kostina[1] (born October 18, 1964 in Minsk, Belarus [2]) is a Belarusian-German mathematician specializing in numerical methods for nonlinear programming, robust optimization, and optimal control theory, and in the applications of these methods to the sciences. She is professor of numerical mathematics in the faculty of mathematics and computer science and institute for applied mathematics at Heidelberg University.[3]
Kostina was a high school student in Minsk, and studied from 1981 to 1986 at Belarusian State University in Minsk, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1986 with the master's thesis Solution algorithms and software for simple minmax problems.[4] She completed her Ph.D. in 1990 through the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Her dissertation, Algorithms for Solving Nonsmooth Minmax Problems, was supervised by Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova.[4][5]
