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# Elena V. Pitjeva

Elena Vladimirovna Pitjeva is a Russian theoretical physicist at the Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. She is noted for her work on ephemerides and is currently head of the Laboratory of Ephemeris Astronomy at the Institute of Applied Astronomy. Pitjeva is a member of the International Astronomical Union Commission 4: Ephemerides.[1]

## Education

Pitjeva earned her undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University in 1972 in the specialty of astronomy. She earned an M.A. in theoretical physics in 1994 and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2005. She was a student of Professor G.A. Krasinski.[2]

## Publications (selection)

     . http://iau-comm4.jpl.nasa.gov/EPM2004.pdf.

     . http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002Icar..158...98K.


## References

1. Laboratory of Ephemeris Astronomy (August 23, 2006). "E.V. Pitjeva". Retrieved 2007-3-15.