C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

Born October 15, 1945 in Sofia, married, two daughters

1965 - 1971 Higher education in the Faculty of Physics, Sofia University "St. Kliment of Ohrid", specialty - astronomy.

July 1971 graduated from the Sofia University. Diploma thesis:"Photometry on the Palomar Sky Survey Prints and Investigation of the Open Cluster NGC 1245 Structure"

Sept. 1971 Research fellow at the Department of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Sept. 1972-March 1976 - Post-graduate specialization in Armenia, Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Advisor: Professor L. V. Mirzoyan.

June 1976 Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.), Yerevan State University, Thesis: "Investigation of the Nonstable Stars in the Region of the Nebulae NGC 7000 - IC 5068-70 in Cygnus".

August 1976 Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

1976 - 1985 Scientific associate of the Department of Astronomy and Rozhen Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1978 Member of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria (USB).

1979 - 1983 Deputy head of the Rozhen Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1983 - 1988 Scientific Secretary of the Department of Astronomy and Rozhen Astronomical Observatory

1985 Senior Research Associate of the Department of Astronomy and Rozhen Astronomical Observatory; Scientific Secretary of the Bulgarian National Committee of Astronomy.

1985 - 1991 National representative in the IAU Nominating and Finance Committees.

1988 - 1990 Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the Astronomical Institute at the Muenster University (Germany).

1991 Senior Research fellow at the Department of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Member of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (BAPR).

1991 Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS). Member of the Organizing Committee of the Working Group on Wide-Field Imaging, (IAU), (1991-1994)

1992 Member of the Emergency Fund Committee (EFC) of the European Astronomical Society (1992-1994) Leader of the Subproject "Flare Stars" between Department of Astronomy and Muenster Astronomical Institute (Germany), Supported by DFG/BAS (1992-1994)

1993 Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the Astronomical Institute at the Muenster University (Germany), (April-May, August) Project Manager on the "Wide-field Plate Database" project (F-311/93) - NSF/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1994 Member of the Emergency Fund Committee (EFC) of the European Astronomical Society, (1994-1996), Member of the Organizing Committee of the IAU Working Group on Wide-Field Imaging, (1994-1997), Member of the International Dark-Sky Assiciation (IDA)

1995 Associate Professor in the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Project Manager on "The Portable Precise Scanner" project (I-529/95) - NSF/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the Astronomical Institute at the Muenster University (Germany), (December)

1996 Member of the AAVSO (American Association of Variable Star Observers); Member of the National Steering Committee (NSC) of the "Astronomy On-Line" the ESO and EAAE Initiative (Co-Chairman)

1997 Member of the IAU Commission 6 "Astronomical Telegramms", and of the OC of the IAU Commission 9 "Astronomical Instruments". Project Manager on the "Wide-field Plate Database": development and application in observational astronomy; project (F-650/96) - NSF/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

1998 Member of the National Steering Committee (NSC) of the "Sea and Space" the ESA, ESO, and EAAE Initiative (Co-Chairman)

1999 Project Manager on the " Wide-field Plate Database: Astronomical Application" project (436-BUL113/110/0 885-2337 25.08.99) - DFG/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

2000 Member of the National Steering Committee (NSC) of the "Physics on Stage" the ECST, CERN, ESA and ESO initiative (Contact-person for ISC)

2001 Project Manager on the project "Wide-field Plate Database": Development and Internet Access; (I-1103/2001, 22.11.2001) (2001-2005)- Space Research Institute/National Science Fund (NSF)/Ministry of Education and Science (MES)

2002 Member of the Management Committee of the EC COST Action 283 "Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid"(2002-2006); National Representative in the WG4 "Surveys Wide-field Imaging" from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute/National Science Fund (NSF)/Ministry of Education and Science (MES)

2002 Project Manager on the Project:"WFPDB:Attention to the russian Wide-field Plate Archives" (2002-2005) - Bilateral project between Russian Academy of Sciences (INASAN)/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IA)

2002 Project Manager on the Project:"On-Line Access to the Bamberg Plate Archive in the frame of Wide-field Plate Database", Bamberg Astronomical Observatory, (436-BUL113/120/0-1 09.09.2002/04.02.2003) - DFG/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; (2003-2005)

2002 Project Manager on the Project:"Catalogue Intergartion and Image Processing of the ROB Wide-field Plate Archive", Bilateral project between the Royal Observatory of Belgium(Coordinator Dr. P. Lampens)/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences(SRI); (2002-2005)

2003 Project Manager on the Project:" Wide-Field Plate Database: Aplcation of the Romanian Photographic Plates" BAS (Institute of Astronomy)/Romanian Academy (Bucharest Astronomical Observatory/Cluj Observatory, Coordinator Dr. M. Stavinschi); (2003-2005)

2003 Project Manager on the Project:"WFPDB: Procesing, analyzis and using for search of the magnetic activity solar like red dwarf star" (in progress) - Ukrainian Academy of Sciences(MAO, Coordinator: Dr.Tanya Sergeeva)/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences(SRI); (2003-2005)

2003 Project Manager on the Project:" Wide-field Plate Database-Astronomical Application" (436-BUL110/120/0-2 03.04.2004), Astrophysical Institute Potsdam - DFG: Coordinator Dr. Gotthard Richter/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IA); (2003-2005)

2003 Participation at the Project: "The History of the Mathematical and the Theoretical Physics of the Sofia University up to 1939", MON NFNI F-1312/2003-2006; (Coordinator: G. Kamisheva)

2004 Project Manager on the Bilateral Project: No.13 " Investigation of long term variability of spotted stars in stellar aggregates" BAS (Space Research Institute)/Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Konkoly Observatory, Coordinator Dr. Lajos Balasz); (2004-2006)

2004 Project Manager on the Project:" Developmet and application of the Astronomical Databases" BAS(Space Research Institute)/Serbian Academy (Belgrad Astronomical Observatory, Coordinator Dr. M. Dimitrijevic); (2004-2007)

2004 Member of the The European Astronomical Society (EAS) Council (2004-2007)

Created: September 1996
Last update: December 15, 2005

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