Ellina Valerievna Grigorieva graduated with honors from the Faculty of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University, postgraduate study of the Faculty of Chemistry in the Department of Physical Chemistry. PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1996). For the past twenty -three years she has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Texas Woman's University (USA). She has written world-famous books on solving various complex mathematical problems. She is a recognized expert in the field of mathematical modeling of processes in economics, biology, and medicine, as well as numerical analysis and analytical study of optimal control problems arising in these processes. Author of more than 100 scientific papers and five books.