Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISIResearcher
Daria Ivanova studied Resource Economics with a focus on mining and mineral processing at the Saint Petersburg Mining University and completed her PhD there in 2021 with a dissertation on the implementation of digital twins for the assessment and reduction of risks of rock bursts in underground mining. During an academic stay abroad, she studied Engineering and Management at the Polytechnic University of Turin, supported by a scholarship from the Italian government.
From 2022 to 2025, as a fellow of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, she additionally completed the Master’s program in Sustainable Resource Management at the Technical University of Munich, specializing in sustainability. In her master’s thesis, she examined the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in Latin America and its impacts on the rainforests of the Amazon Basin.
From 2023 to 2025, she worked as a raw materials expert at the BMW AG, where she led a project on transparency in conflict mineral supply chains and was responsible for the analysis of global metal markets.
Since 2026, Daria Ivanova has been a Research Associate in the Department of Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI.