Biography
Prof. Marina Rynkovskaya
Prof. Marina Rynkovskaya
RUDN University, Russia
Biography: 
Dr. Marina Rynkovskaya (Rynkovskaya-mi@rudn.ru) is an associate professor at department of civil engineering at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). She obtained BSc and MSc degrees in Civil Engineering in 2002 and 2004 respectively at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). Since 2003 she had worked as a design/structural engineer in industry for 10 years and defended her PhD thesis in Structural Mechanics at Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT) in 2013. She has worked at RUDN University as a lecturer since 2006, as an associate professor since 2014, and as a director of the department since 2020 till 2023. The main research topics concern analytical methods of stress-strain analysis of spatial/shell structures, optimization problems of shells, ecological aspects of shell structures. Since 2018 she is a member of the International Association for Spatial Structures (IASS). She is also involved in several research projects such as optimization of free-form roofs (in collaboration with CentraleSupelec, France) and stress solution for elastic/plastic FGM discs (in collaboration with Beihang University, China). She has the Honorary Diploma of the Rectorate of the RUDN University for active scientific and pedagogical activity (2016), the best teacher award of the Moscow City Professional Competition of Pedagogical Excellence and Public Recognition in the nomination "Young Teacher of the University - 2012", won several grants (RUDN University Scientific Projects Grant System 2023, Potanin’s grant 2020-2021, DAAD 2019, RFBR 2014, 2015, etc).