Degrees:

• Habilitation, 2010, University of Hohenheim, Germany
• PhD, 2000, Ural State University, Russia
• MSc, 1998, Ural State University, Russia
• BSc, 1996, Ural State University, Russia

Research Interests:

Approximation Theory, Classical and Abstract Harmonic Analysis

Employment:

• University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2021–today (Associate Professor)
• Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, 2015–2021 (Senior Lecturer, tenured)
• German University of Technology in Oman (affiliated to RWTH Aachen University), Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 2011–2015 (Associate Professor)
• Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, Summer 2013 (Visiting Professor – Vertretungsprofessur)
• University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, 2002–2011 (Academic Associate)
• FernUniversity in Hagen, Germany, Winter 2009–2010 (Adjunct Professor – Lehrauftrag)
• University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2000–2002 (Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, Academic Associate)
• Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 1998–2000 (Ph.D. Student, Assistant)
• Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 1995–2002 (Researcher)

Research Visits:

• Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (01–02/2024, 07–08/2014)
• Tel Aviv University, Israel (12/2019–01/2020, 03/2017)
• The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK (03/2019)
• Research in Pairs, Mathematical Institute Oberwolfach, Germany (02/2019)
• Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia (02–03/2016)
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (04/2014)
• Mathematics Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (07–08/2012, 09/2011, 08/2010, 03/2008)

Plenary Talks at Conferences (Excerpt):

• Winter Workshop: Fourier Analysis and Its Applications, Erdős Center, Budapest, Hungary, 01/2024
• International Conference on Approximation and Potential Theory, Georgia Southern University, Savannah GA, USA, 09/2023
• International Conference on Approximation Theory and Applications, Cetraro, Italy, 06/2023
• X Jaen Conference on Approximation Theory, Úbeda, Jáen, Spain, 07/2019
• The Third International Conference on Mathematics and Computation, Haldia Institute of Technology, India, 01/2017
• International Stechkin Summer School-Conference on Function Theory, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 08/2016
• International Workshop on Mathematics in Oman, Muscat, Oman, 02/2012
• International Conference Constructive Theory of Functions 2010, Sozopol, Bulgaria, 06/2010
• 7th International Conference on Multivariate Approximation, Haus Bommerholz, Germany, 09/2008

Editorial:

• Results in Mathematics (Associate Editor)
• Ural Mathematical Journal (Associate Editor)

• Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multivariate Approximation, Giessen”, Journal of Approximation Theory (2019)
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Approximation Theory and Numerical Analysis”, Abstract and Applied Analysis (2014)

Teaching at UCT:

• Analysis Core Module for Mathematics Honours
• Real Analysis (2RA)
• Complex Analysis (3CA)

Contact:

E-Mail: elena.berdysheva@uct.ac.za

Last modified: 15.04.2024