Svetlana Ikonnikova

Energy Economist, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Svetlana Ikonnikova is a Research Associate / Energy Economist in the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.Sc. and M.S. degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia and her Ph.D. from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

From 2007-2008 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and Teaching Assistant at Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2008 she started working in the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin, first as a postdoctoral fellow and since 2011 as a Research Associate.

Dr. Ikonnikova has published her research in peer-reviewed journals and presented at numerous conferences, including USAEE, where in 2006 she was awarded “Best Student Paper Award”. Key interest of Dr. Ikonnikova is natural gas and natural gas market developments. In the past she studied supply networks delivering natural gas from the Former Soviet Republics to Europe and LNG world market. At present her research is focuses on shale gas, its production outlook and market implications.