Date and place of birth: 14 February 1959, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Marital status: Married, one child
| Education:
Ph.D., Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow “M. Lomonosov” University, Moscow, Russia, 1986 – 1990. Ph.D. Thesis: Diophantine inequalities with prime numbers, 1990. Scientific advisor: Professor A. A. Karatsuba. B.A. and M.Sc., Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “Kl. Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1979 – 1984. |
| Research interests:
Elementary and analytic number theory. |
| Employment: From 2007: Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria. From 2006: Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. From 2002 to 2006: Associate Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. From 1996 to 2002: Associate Professor, Ph.D., Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. From 1990 to 1996: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. From 1984 to 1986: Software developer, Main Computer Centre, Plovdiv. |
| Teaching experience:
1) Special courses: Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University “Paisij Hilendarski”, Bulgaria Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “Kl. Ohridski”, Bulgaria; Mathematical Institute, Oxford, England; 2) Standard courses: Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University “Paisij Hilendarski”, Bulgaria |
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Funded projects and fellowships: 1998, 2000, 2003: Mathematical Institute, Oxford, England, (Royal Society Fellowship). 2003: Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba, Japan (JSPS Fellowship). 2002: Participation in the Special activity in analytic number theory, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. 1997: Department of Mathematics, Naples University “Federico II”, Naples, Italy. 1996: Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. 1994, 1997: Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow “M.Lomonosov” University, Moscow, Russia. 1992 – 1993: Department of Mathematics, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy (CNR Fellowship). 1992: Institute of Mathematics, Gottingen, Germany. From 2005 to present: Participation in the national project Mathematical Physics and Number Theory financed by the Ministry of Science and Education, Bulgaria From 1997 to present: Chair of several projects, entitled Additive problems in number theory, Plovdiv University Scientific Fund, Bulgaria. 1994 – 1997: Chair of the project Additive problems in number theory, Ministry of Science and Education, Bulgaria. |
| Guest lectures:
October 2005: Fundamental achievements of prime number theory at the begining of 21st century, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria. April 2004: Goldbach’s problem – past, present and future, Spring conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, Borovets, Bulgaria. December 2003: On the exponential sum over square–free numbers, Number Theory Seminar, Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, Oxford, England. May 2003: Representations of integers as sums of squares of primes and almost–primes, Analytic Number Theory Seminar, Meiji–Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. November 1998: Additive problems with prime numbers of special type, Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, Oxford, England. November 1998: Additive problems with prime numbers of special type, Department of Mathematics, Cardiff Unversity, Cardiff, Wales. May 1996: A result of Bombieri–Vinogradov’s type for prime numbers from a thin set, Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. May 1993: Diophantine inequalities with prime numbers, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria. May 1993: On the method of I.M.Vinogradov for estimation of exponential sums, Department of Mathematics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. |