Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data
Born: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Nationaly: Bulgarian
Marital Status: married, two children: a son and a daughter
Education
1967 M.Sc in Physics
Faculty of Physics, Sofia University
Thesis title: Star rotation
Supervisor: Prof. Bogomil Kovachev
1975
PhD in Astrophysics,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University
Thesis title: Peculiarities in the Evolution of Massive Close Binary Stars: Theory and Observations
Supervisor: Prof. Alla G. Massevitch
Referees: Prof. Dmitrij Ya. Martynov
Prof. Youri L. Frantsman
Positions
1967 - 1976 Physicist, Department of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1971 - 1974 PhD Student, Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences USSR (now INASAN), Moscow
1976 Member of International Astronomical Union (IAU)
1976 - 1985 National Representative of Bulgaria in division 5 "Binary stars", Problem Commission "Physics and Evolution of Stars"
1977 - 1982 Scientitic Research, Department of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1982 Member of IAU commision 42 "Close binary stars"
1983 Member of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria (USB)
1983 - 1986 Senior Research / Associated Professor, Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences USSR (now INASAN), Moscow
Co-investigator in the project "Statistical investigations of the binary stars from star catalogues data"
1987 - 1988 Scientitic Research, Department of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1987 - 1990 Head of the project "Binary stars", Department of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1987 Member of Bulgarian Physical Union
1989 - 1994 Senior Research / Associated Professor, Department of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1991 Member of European Astronomical Society (EAS)
1991 - 1994 Head of the project "Observational Behaviour of Circumstellar Matter in Close Binary Stars", Department of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1993 - 1996 Head of the project "Studies of Novalikes", National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR), Contract N 346/93
1995 Senior Research / Associated Professor, Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1995 Member of Scientific Council of Institute of Astronomy
1995 Head of the project "Studies of Close Binary Stars", Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1995 - 2007 Secretary of Scientific Council, Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
1997 - 2001 Head of the project "Accretion Structures in Cataclysmic Binaries", National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR), Contract N 715/97
1999 - 2004 Bulgarian side coordinator of the Joint research project "Astrometric, Photometric and Spectroscopic Follow - up of Binaries", Bilateral collaboration between the Royal Observatory of Belgium (coordinator Dr P. Lampens) / Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Astronomy
2007 - 2008 Bulgarian side coordinator of the Joint research project "Photometric and Spectroscopic Follow up Studies of Binary Systems of Special Interest", Bilateral collaboration between the Royal Observatory of Belgium (coordinator Dr P. Lampens) / Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Astronomy
Research Interests
  binary stars; interacting binary stars,cataclysmic variables; accretion in close binary stars; statistical investigations of eclipsing,spectroscopic and visual binaries;binary stars in the regions of open clusters; evolution of close binaries, stellar models;