Her research interests include numerical linear algebra, control theory, and differential-algebraic systems of equations.
[1] Stykel earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Novosibirsk State University in 1994 and 1996.
[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Analysis and Numerical Solution of Generalized Lyapunov Equation, was supervised by Volker Mehrmann.
[2] After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calgary, and then a researcher and guest professor at Technische Universität Berlin from 2003 until 2011, when she took her current position in Augsburg.
[3] She won the Richard von Mises Prize of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik in 2007.