Elena Karpovich is an aircraft engineer and a professor with a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering.
Elena specializes in aircraft aerodynamic design. Since 2012, Elena has been working as a design engineer for the preliminary design department of Yakovlev Corporation. In addition, she has given lectures and introductory short-term courses to interns and high school visitors to the corporation's Engineering Center. Since 2020, she has been serving as a peer reviewer for the Aerospace Systems journal and two MDPI journals, Aerospace and Energy. In 2021–2023, Elena composed three courses for Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) Ph.D. students, including the course on academic writing and peer reviewing. Also, in 2022, she created an online course, Introduction to Aircraft Aerodynamics, which one can find here:
https://en.mai.ru/education/online/aerody
namic_design/.
As an assistant professor, Elena also gives a scientific seminar on aircraft engineering to MAI Master's degree international students, serves as a technical translator, and has some experience in charing conference sections. Elena holds honors degrees in aircraft design, aerodynamics, and Greek philology. In fulfillment of her life-long learning approach, she has benefited from numerous supplementary courses, including the Peer Review and Mentoring in Peer Review courses by the Publons Academy (Web of Science Academy), the Psychology of Public Speaking, and the Pedagogy in Higher Education courses.