Helena Nikolaevna Knyazeva (Russian: Елена Николаевна Князева, born 23 December 1959) is a Russian philosopher of science, complex systems scientist, scholar of synergetics,[1] and translator into Russian of the works of Ilya Prigogine, Edgar Morin, and others.

[2] She is a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

[4] She was a student at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, studying physics, astronomy, and philosophy there and graduating in 1982 with an honors degree in physics.

[3][4] She earned a candidate degree (equivalent to Ph.D.) in 1985 through the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, and completed a doctor of sciences degree (habilitation) in 1995 through the same institute.

[3] She worked as a researcher in the Institute of Philosophy for over 30 years, and from 2008 to 2013 headed the department of evolutionary epistemology there.