Elmira Ramazanova

Elmira Mammadamin gizi Ramazanova (; 28 October 1934 – 8 December 2020) was an Azerbaijani geologist and petroleum engineer who specialized in the efficiency of oil and gas extraction and was a professor at Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University. Early life and education Elmira Mammadamin gizi Ramazanova was born on 28 October 1934 in Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (now Azerbaijan), and was educated at School No. 134 in Baku and the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute (now Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University. In 1965, she received her PhD in Technical Sciences, with her thesis titled "Razrabotka i issledovaniye metodiki rascheta usloviy razdeleniya gaza v gazokondensatnykh sistemakh" .

Career After working for sometime at the Azerbaijan SSR's energy department, she remained at the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute (by then renamed the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute) as a faculty member, eventually being promoted to the rank of professor in 1978. She served on the editorial board of the Azerbaijan Oil Industry Journal.