The research interests of Svetlana Ikonnikova are related to energy and environmental resources. Her recent studies on conventional and unconventional natural gas supply (incl. liquefied natural gas), water-energy nexus, industrialization of hydrogen technologies, financing of the energy transition, focus on the behavior of the energy industry and markets players. Svetlana’s expertise in complex system modeling and machine–learning algorithms helps to conduct analyses informing and educating students, and also industry and governmental representatives around the world.
Svetlana Ikonnikova holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Management (the Humboldt University of Berlin), MS in Applied Physics and Mathematics (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven studying energy, transport, and environmental economics. In 2008-2019, Svetlana worked at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she became the head of the multi-disciplinary team of economists, engineers, and geoscientists studying the long-term capability of the U.S. unconventional resources to contribute to natural gas and oil supply. In September 2019, Svetlana joined TUM School of Management as Associate Professor in Resource Economics.
