2024-09-25 12:34:08
The meeting of academicians elected five new academicians of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and earth sciences, as well as in the field of engineering sciences. Elections for new members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (academics and corresponding members) are held from today until September 28 of this year.
Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Direction “Mathematical Sciences”:
Academician Stefan Petrov Ivanov (born 1957)
His research interests are in the field of geometry and mathematical physics. He is an internationally recognized and established specialist in Riemannian and complex differential geometry, string theories, quaternion geometry, etc., with some of his strongest results in string theories and geometry.
Academician Stefan Ivanov has made an indisputable contribution to the development of the Bulgarian school of modern differential geometry and geometry of manifolds. He works in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the SU and in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the BAS. He was elected as a corresponding member in 2014.
In the field of Chemical Sciences, the Assembly of Academicians elected two academicians:
Vasya Bankova (born 1954). She is a world-renowned scientist in the field of chemistry of biologically active natural compounds. The particularly important achievements of art.-cor. Bankova are in the research of propolis – a bee product widely used in traditional medicine and of increasing importance as a raw material for commercial products in our country and all over the world. Her research represents an essential stage in the development of modern ideas about the structure, properties and application of propolis.
Tony Spasov (born 1961). His scientific research is in the field of physicochemical materials science: synthesis of metastable and nanocrystalline materials; phase transformations in metal alloys and salts; nucleation and crystal growth kinetics in metallic glasses; thermal, magnetic and chemical properties of metastable materials; nanostructured materials for hydrogen storage and synthesis and characterization of nanoporous materials with diverse applications. A number of his works have played a key role in the development of material science.
In the field of Physical Sciences, the Assembly of Academicians elected Alexander Draishu (born 1961) as academician.
A world-renowned scientist in the field of photonics (non-linear optics and ultrashort femtosecond pulse optics), holography, interferometry and the interaction of coherent light with matter. Participated in the development of a new technology for generating coherent X-ray radiation. He works at the Faculty of Physics of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.
In the field of Engineering Sciences, Petko Hristov Petkov (born 1948) was elected academician.
His main scientific contributions are in the fields of: theory of automatic control – a new class of methods for synthesis at set poles and synthesis of observers of the state of linear control systems was developed; numerical methods for computer design of control systems – a new method for perturbation analysis of tasks in control theory is proposed; digital implementation of complex control laws – a methodology is developed for the synthesis and embedding of complex high-order control laws in microcontrollers and digital signal processors used for real-time control.