Professor Ekaterina Pavlovskaia, NRPe Director

Professor Ekaterina Pavlovskaia is the Head of School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/engineering/people/profiles/e.pavlovskaia). She is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE).

Ekaterina graduated with first class degree with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University in 1996, obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Russian Academy of Science in 1998, and then held an academic position at St Petersburg State University and had a short research spell at Ford Research Laboratory in the US, before joining the University of Aberdeen as a Research Fellow in 2000. Ekaterina is currently a Personal Chair in the School of Engineering and became the University’s first female Head of Engineering in 2021. Her expertise is in mathematical modelling and the applications she has been working on include novel resonance enhanced drilling technology, rotordynamics (turbines and engines), and riser mechanics.  Ekaterina is an author of more than 180 scientific publications including 70+ refereed journal papers.