CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Sawa Slavtschev Manoff
NATIONALITY: Bulgarian
DATE OF BIRTH: 7 June 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH: Pleven, Bulgaria
EDUCATION:
HIGH SCHOOL: 1961, First Polytechnical Highschool, Pleven
UNIVERSITY: 1968, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena-GDR (Germany)
DEGREES:
DIPL. PHYSIKER - 1968, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena-GDR (Germany)
DR.RER.NAT. - 1973, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena-GDR (Germany)
DR. SC. - 2000, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy
ACADEMIC RANK:
SENIOR SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1968-1970 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), Physicist
1970-1973 Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, Post-graduate Student
1974-1980 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), Scientific Collaborator (second degree)
1979-1980 Kliment Ochridski University, Sofia, Department of Physics, Invited Lecturer
1979-1981 Kliment Ochridski University, Sofia, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Invited Lecturer
1980-1985 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), Scientific Collaborator (first degree)
1981-1984 INRNE, Scientific Planning
1984 INRNE, Scientific Secretary
1985-present INRNE, Department of Theoretical Physics, Senior Scientific Researcher
1989 Kliment Ochridski University, Sofia, Department of Physics, Invited Lecturer
1991-1993 Kliment Ochridski University, Sofia, Department of Physics, Invited Lecturer
2001 INRNE, Scientific Secretary
PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS:
1967 University Fellow - Friedrich Schiller University,
1975 First Prize for Youth Physicist - IV. Conf. Youth Phys., 1975, Sofia
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
1972-1998 Union of the Physicists in Bulgaria (UPB), Member
1999-2001 Union of the Physicists in Bulgaria, Vice President of Sofia's Branch of the UPB
1982-84 Union of the Scientists in Bulgaria, Member
ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:
Invited Participant at International Conferences, Visitor and Lecturer, Diploma Advisor, Ph.D. Advisor
FIELD OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
MAIN TOPICS OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
General Relativity: Exact Solutions, Conservation Laws, and Equations for Gravitational Detectors
Differential Geometry and Its Applications to Gravitational Physics: Differentiable Manifolds with Affine Connections and Metrics (Special Vector Fields; Deviation Operators; Deviation equations; Lagrangian theory of tensor fields; Projective Formalisms)