Good day!

I’m Vera Roshchina, an applied mathematician working on convex and nonsmooth problems, mostly arising from optimisation. I am currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW Sydney, where I also lead the School’s Research Nexus Frontiers in Fundamental Mathematics.

Before joining UNSW in 2018, I was an ARC DECRA Research Fellow at RMIT University and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Melbourne, Federation University Australia, and the University of Évora (Portugal). In 2021, I was awarded the Christopher Heyde Medal by the Australian Academy of Science. I completed my undergraduate studies at St Petersburg State University and obtained my PhD from the City University of Hong Kong.

See my research page for detailed information about my publications and research activities.

Recent News

Optimisation Days workshop at UNSW Sydney

We held a two-day optimisation workshop on 11-12 November, followed by a Research Nexus talk by Dr James Saunderson.

WODCA2025 invited talk

I gave an invited talk “How to make convex sets” at the Workshop on Optimization, Dynamics and Convex Analysis held in Aveiro, Portugal in honour of Alexander Plakhov.

2024 MoCaO lectures

I gave a series of lectures on convex geometry as the MoCaO lecturer this year, together with Isabelle Shankar (Portland State) and Bruno Lourenco (ISM, Japan). Please visit the MoCaO page for more information.