2015-present    PhD researcher, Development Studies, Social and Political Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany

2014                    Master’s of Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Transformation, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

2008                    BA in Psychology, Department of Psychology, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Diploma with honours

• UN Women Academic Gender Studies Summer School in Kyrgyzstan, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and the Beijing Platform for Action for the advancement of women and girls ("Beijing +20"), Kyrgyzstan, 2015
• Workshop for BIT project participants “Producing policy-relevant research and papers to influence decision-making”, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway, 2015

Peace and violence, gender equity, sustainable development,  identity.

• Measuring mixedness: A case study of the Kyrgyz Republic (forthcoming)
• Romantic securityscapes of mixed couples: surviving the present, imagining the future (forthcoming)
• Elena Kim, Asel Myrzabekova, Elena Molchanova & Olha Yarova, 2018. Making the ‘empowered woman’: exploring contradictions in gender and development programming in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asian Survey, 37:2, 228-246, Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02634937.2018.1450222 

• UNDP, 2016, Case Study on combating gender inequality in political participation in Kyrgyzstan, available at http://www.kg.undp.org/content/kyrgyzstan/en/home/library/womens_empowerment/-case-study-on-combating-gender-inequality-in-political-particip.html

Central Eurasian Studies Society