Elena Braverman

Elena Braverman was born in 1961 in Perm

Elena Braverman was born in Perm in the Soviet Union in 1961. Her father, Yan Petrovich Lumel'skii, was a mathematical statistician. Her mother, Ludmila Mikhailovna Tsirulnikova, taught physics at university level, and her maternal grandfather was weapons engineer Mikhail Yuryevich Tsirulnikov.

She earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 and a master's degree in 1983 at Perm State University. In 1990 she completed her Ph.D. at Ural State University, with a thesis on linear impulsive functional differential equations supervised by Nikolai V. Azbelev.

In 1992 she emigrated to Israel and took a postdoctoral position at the Technion. She stayed in Israel for most of the next decade and taught at the Technion and at ORT Braude College of Engineering.

After a visit to Yale University, she joined the University of Calgary in 2002. She received tenure in 2007 and became a full professor in 2011. She is one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Advances in Difference Equations and co-wrote a 2012 book on nonoscillation theory. Her son is computer scientist Mark Braverman.