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Curriculum Vitae PETROV, Georgi Trendafilov 72, Tsarigradsko
Chausee 1784-Sofia, E_mails: petrov[at]astro[dot]bas[dot]bg petrovgt[at]mail[dot]bg petrovgt[at]mail[dot] Tel.: +359-2-71-44-379 (office) +359-2-845-94-92 (home) |
Date and place of birth
1946, 24
of
September;
Citizen
Bulgarian
Married, 2 children - a daughter(28) and a son(25)
Foreign Languages:
Russian -
written and spoken
English -
written
and spoken
German,
French -
with dictionary
Education and Position
1965
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1974 - University of Sofia, Faculty of Physics - astronomer
1979 -
1988 - Associated Professor - Senior Research
Affiliations
1965 - Poligraphical State Company - technician
1972
- University of
1974
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1975
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1978
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1983
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1988
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Scientific investigations and teaching/lectures
1995 - A head of Project "Individual galaxies"
1992 - A head of Project "Study of selected VOIDS" - National Foundation "Scientific Investigations" - No. 237
1994 - A head of Project "Photometric investigation of variable QUASARS" - National Foundation "Scientific Investigations" - No. 494
Five students, doing their Diploma thesis in Astronomy
Three Ph.D. students (Doctorands)
More than 30 seminar lectures abroad
Ca. 85 scientific publications
Three months specialization in MPIA -
Joint project "Investigation of selected voids" - MPIA -
Joint project "Investigation of faint galaxy population" - Institute of Astronomy, Muenster, Prof. W. Setter
Joint project "Investigation of Active Galactic Nuclei" -
Joint project "Surface Photometry of BOX/PEANUT galaxies"
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Joint project "Structure of the Galaxy: Open clusters in
the anticenter" - Observatory Hoer List,
Joint project "Active Galactic Nuclei" - Special
Astrophysical Observatory,
Scientific project "Physics and evolution of stars and stellar systems" - leading research
Scientific project "Individual Galaxies" – head of the project
Member of Scientific councils and commissions
1983 - 1999 a member of the Scientific and Directory councils
1996 - a member of the
National Committee of Astronomy
2001 - a member of the Scientific council of the
Taking
a part in many different work group and commissions of the
International and National professional, scientific etc. associations, federations, societies...
Member of the Bulgarian Physical Society
Member of the Bulgarian National Committee of Astronomy
Member of the
International
Astronomical
Member and cofounder of the European Astronomical Society
Member-cofounder of the Bulgarian Astronomical Society; President of the Control council
Member - cofounder of the former DAAD grant students
Cofounder of Janko Sakazov foundation
Cofounder and a member of the Management board of Krastjo Pastuhov Foundation
Vice-President of the Church "St. Joan Evangelist" council
1996-1999 - Member of the state council -
Administration activities
Head of the department of " Astronomical observations and data reduction" - 1983 - 1986
Head of the Commission of social activities
Member of the Financial Commission of the Scientific council
Head of the Commission of engineering infrastructure, architecture and social community - 1996 - 1999
Head of Sector “Galaxies - Bulgarian
Practice with big telescopes
Bjurakan - 2.6-m+spectrograph+camera
SAO - 6-m+camera+spectrograph+ITS
Calar Alto - 1.23-m + CCD + "Magic" IR camera
Calar Alto - 2.2-m+spectrograph+ITS+CCD
Calar Alto - 3.6-m+spectrograph+CCD
Rojhen - 2-m+camera+spectrograph+ITS+CCD
Rojhen - 60-cm+photometer+camera+ITS
Belogradchik - 60-cm+photometer+CCD
Computer techniques and practice
PC - DOS, WINDOWS, Linux , Ultrix
MS-Office, Grapher, Surpher, StatGraph, TableCurve, SpectrCalc, Statistica...
MIDAS, IDL,
Pascal, Fortran, C
Basic field of scientific investigations
Astrophysics of gaseous nebulae
Kinematics and dynamics of stellar system
Active galactic nuclei
Luminosity function
Chemical abundance of nebulae and galaxies
Surface Photometry of Galaxies
Open clusters
Large scale structure of the Universe
Galaxies in Voids
Gravitational lensing
BOX / PEANUT galaxies
Astronomical maintenance