Keynote speaker- Prof. Dr. Elena Bykova

Prof. Dr. Elena Bykova
Institute of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt
Germany

Prof. Dr. Elena Bykova is a junior research group leader in the Institute of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt. She earned her Ph.D. in 2015 from Bayerisches Geoinstitut at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where she developed methodology of single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions.  Her work led to the discovery of numerous oxides, carbonates, silicates, borides, and carbides with novel, not anticipated at ambient pressure, crystal chemistry. In 2018, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to ultra-high-pressure crystallography, she was awarded the Max von Laue Prize by the German Crystallographic Society.