CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION:

• Doctor of Sciences in Mathematics (Mathematical modeling and application of mathematics), 2016
• Professor in Mathematics (Mathematical modeling and application of mathematics), 2011
• Associate Professor in Computational Mathematics, 1985
  Diploma of national level, awarded by the Higher Attestation Commission of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, specialty of Computational Mathematics, 1981, Tarass Shevchenko State University of Kiev, Ukraine (1976-1980), Faculty of Cybernetics
  Thesis: Higher order accuracy finite difference schemes on infinite domains. Scientific advisor: Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Prof. D.Sc. Vladimir Leonidovich Makarov
• M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computational Mathematics, 1973
  St. Climent Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria (1968-1973)
  Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics
  Thesis: Numerical methods in theory of elasticity
  Advisor: Full Prof. D.Sc. Stefka Nikolaeva Dimova

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

• Full Professor of Mathematics, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, from 2011 until now
• Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1985- 2011
• Head Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1974-1976, 1981-1985
• Associate Professor of Mathematics, Higher Technical Institute of Gabes, El Manara, Gabes, Tunisia, 1990-1994.
• Part-time Associate Professor of Computer Science (French education), Francophone Center, University of Food Technology, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1997- 2009
• Part-time Associate Professor of Computer Science, Local Center of Distance Education of the Technical University of Varna - brunch Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2002-2007
• Part-time Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Medical University St. George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2003-2004
• Part-time Associate Professor of Computer Science, Center of Market Economics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (vocational training and lifelong education), 2002-2003
• Programmer designer and mathematician, ESSI Research Center of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Laboratory "Creation and development of typical territorial information system for civil engineering" - branch Plovdiv, 1973-1974.
  

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Vice-dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv University, 2007 - 2011
• Scientific Secretary of the Scientific Council at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Plovdiv University, 2000-2010
• Member of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians and Informaticians, 1974 -
• Member of the American Mathematical Society, 1985 -
• Member of European Women in Mathematics (EWM), 2002 -
• Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews, 1985 -
• Reviewer of Zentralblatt  fur Mathematik, 1985 -
• Reviewer of WSEAS from 2008
• Reviewer of ACM from 2008

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2005
• ENSBANA - Dijon, France,  pedagogical project, one month, supported by the AUF (Association des Universites  Francophones), 2005
• Technical University, Nish, Serbia and Montenegro, 2005
• PIXEL, Florance, Italy, Vocational and training course, Grundtvig 3 programme, 2005
• Istanbul University, Turkey, 2006
• Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2006
• Coventry University, Coventry, Unated Kingdom, Leonardo PP meeting, 2007
• University of Salamanka, Salamanka, Spain, 2007
• International Conference ICEST2007, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, 2007
• International Conference ICNAAM2007, Corfu, Greece, 2007
• University of Limerick, Ireland, 2008
• University Olympiad SEEMOUS 2008, Athens, Greece
• University of Misckolc, Hungary, 2008
• WSEAS Conference EE'08 Crete, Greece, 2008
• International Conference ICL2008, Villach, Austria, 2008
• International Conference XVII GCLHPL, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008
• University of Tampere, Finland, 2008
• University Olympiad SEEMOUS 2009, Agros, Cyprus, 2009
• University of Helsinki, Finland, 2009
• University of Misckolc, Hungary, 2009
• Selcuk University, Turkey, 2009
• Academy Verein fur Bildungsberatung e.V., Frankfurt, Germany, 2010
• WSEAS Conference ICOAA '10, Cambridge, UK, 2010
• Selcuk University, Turkey, 2010
• Conference of Computational Statistics COMPSTAT2010, Paris, France, 2010
• University of Economics and Computer Science, Warsaw, Poland, 2010
• Comillas Pontificia University, Madrid, Spain, 2011
• Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, 2011
• Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, June 2011
• Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, September 2011

LANGUAGES:

• Mother tongue - Bulgarian
• Other languages - English, French, Russian

OTHER PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES:

• TECHNICAL: Algorithms, Basic, Visual Fortran, VM, MS-DOS, UNIX, C, C++, Pascal, Windows, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Mathematica, Maple, SPSS, Publicon, ScientificWorkPlace, LaTex, SciWriter, Macromedia Dreamweaver, MARS, CART, etc.
• ARTISTIC: playing violin; singing 5 years in  the world- known Plovdiv amateur choir ‘Angel Bukoreshtliev’ - prize-winner in many international competitions in Bulgaria, Germany, Holland, Belgium and other European countries

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