Natalia received a Master’s of Science in Radiophysics in 1990 from the Gorky (presently Nizhny Novgorod) State University, Russia, a Master of Science in physics from the University of New Orleans in 1996 and a PhD in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of New Orleans in 1997. After a two-year career in the oil industry with Landmark Graphics Corporation and Halliburton Company, she joined the Department of Physics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2000, where she is now an associate professor and chair.

She has published more than 30 scientific papers, including contributions to three books on ocean acoustics. She received two Bill Good Awards from the physics faculty of the University of New Orleans in recognition of outstanding research in physics and the Distinguished Graduate Research Award at the Doctoral Level from the University of New Orleans. Her name was selected for publication in the 14th Edition (1997) of “Who’s Who in the World.”

Her research interests include numerical modeling of sound propagation through ocean waveguides; theoretical methods in scattering from objects; depth imaging techniques in seismic signal processing; seismic data management; methods of presentation and processing of deterministic and random signals, including the adaptive processing of highly noisy experimental data; methods of solutions of hydrophysical inverse problems (noise source imaging, ocean acoustic tomography); and marine mammal acoustics. She is a member of Acoustical Society of America and Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society.
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