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)