CURRICULUM  VITAE

NAME: Bozhidar Zakhariev Iliev

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• The German transliteration is Boschidar  Zahariev Iliev.
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NATIONALITY: Bulgarian 

CITIZENSHIP: Bulgarian

DATE OF BIRTH: 1958

PLACE OF BIRTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

LANGUAGES: Bulgarian (native speaker), Russian (fluent), English (good), German (bad)

MARITAL STATUS: divorced, 1 daughter (Victoria, born: 1991)

EDUCATION:

• HIGH SCHOOL: 1976 (Jun 27), The National Gymnasium of Mathematics (the present National High School of Mathematics and Science (NHSMS)) in Sofia.
  The site of the Bozho's alumni 1976 of NMG is available.
• UNIVERSITY: 1981 (Mar 23), The Physical department of the Sofia State University "St. Kliment Ohridski", qualification physicist with specialization atomic physics (degree M. Sc. (Dipl. phys.)).
  The site of the Bozho's alumni 1981 of the physical department ot the Sofia University is available.
• DEGREES:
  • 1981 (Mar 23), M. Sc. in physics, Sofia state university.
  • Adviser of the diploma work "Lie derivatives. Deviation equations in spaces with affine connection" was Prof. Dr. Sava Manov from the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
    
  • 1995 (Mar 7), Ph. D. in mathematics, Institute of Mathematics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
    Advisers of the thesis, "Transports along paths in fibre bundles'', were Prof. St. Dimiev and Prof. Vl. Aleksandrov from the division of Complex Analysis.
• ACADEMIC RANK:
  • 1981 (Jul 1) — 1986 (Dec 31): Physicist, M. Sc.
  • 1988 (Jan 1) — 1996 (Mar 7): Physicist, M. Sc.
  • 1996 (Mar 7) — 1999 (Apr 29): Assistant Professor (Research fellow) II degree, Ph.D. (in math.)
  • 1999 (Apr 29) — 2002 (Nov 19): Assistant Professor (Research fellow ) I degree, Ph.D. (in math.)
  • Since 2002 (Nov 19): Associate Professor II degree, Ph.D. (in math.)

PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS:

• Gold medal from the National High School of Mathematics and Science in Sofia, June 1976.
• Included in "Who's Who in the World, 2000 Millennium Edition", 17th Edition, A Who's Who in America Publication, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, January 2000.
• Included in "Outstanding people of the 20th Century", Second edition, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2000.
• Included in "2000 outstanding intellectuals of the 20th century", International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2000; Second ed. 2003.
• Included in "2000 outstanding scientists of the 21st century", 1st Edition,  International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, late 2001.
• Included in "Whos who in the 21st century", International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, late 2001.
• Included in "Who's Who in the World, 2001", 18th Edition, A Who's Who in America Publication, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, 2001.
• Included in "Dictionary of international biography, 29th Edition, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, mid 2001.
• Included in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2002~2003", 6th Edition, A Who's Who in America Publication, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, 2003.
• Included in "Who's Who", American Biographical Institute (Raleigh, North Carolina 27622, USA), 2004.
• Included in "The Contemporary Who's Who of Professionals", American Biographical Institute (Raleigh, North Carolina 27622, USA), 2005.

ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

• Invited Participant at the International Conferences: "Gravitational Energy and Gravitational Waves'', Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna USSR (Russia): 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
• Visitor: College on Differential Geometry (from 30.10.1989 to 01.12.1989), International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy
• Invited Participant at the International Workshop "Advanced Geometric Methods in Physics", Florence, Italy, 14 -- 18 April, 2005
• Invited Participant at the International Workshop on "Complex Structures and vector Fields": 2002-2010:
  

FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: Differential Geometry General Relativity and its generalizations Quantum Mechanics Quantum Field Theory (Particle Physics)

MAIN TOPICS OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: Deviation equations in spaces with affine connection Transports along paths in fibre bundles and their physical applications Equivalence principle (in gravity physics and gauge theories) Quantum mechanics on fibre bundles Normal frames and coordinates Quantum field theory Quantum field theory on fibre bundles

JOB EXPERIENCE:

• Physicist, assistant prof., and associated prof. in the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. From 01.07.1981 to 31.12.1986 and since 01.01.1988.
• Associated  professor in the group of Gravity Physics and Relativity Theory (of prof. N. A. Chernikov) in the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and in the Laboratory of Information Technologies (former Laboratory of Computing Technique and Automation) of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna (Russia, former USSR):
  • from 30.11.1981 to 17.12.1981;   from 25.10.1983 to 26.01.1984;
  • from 03.12.1986 to 03.05.1987;   from 27.11.1988 to 09.12.1988;
  • from 18.07.1989 to 18.10.1989;   from 09.03.1990 to 11.04.1990;
  • from 14.05.1990 to 23.05.1990;   from 01.08.1990 to 15.12.1990;
  • from 10.11.1992 to 14.01.1993;   from 05.06.1993 to 14.08.1993;
  • from 29.12.1993 to 14.02.1994;   from 18.04.1994 to 31.05.1994;
  • from 30.01.1995 to 28.03.1995;   from 26.11.1996 to 27.02.1997
• Scientific visits (field trips) in:
  • International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy (College on Differential Geometry; from 30.10.1989 to 01.12.1989).
  • Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia (former USSR) (from 19.02.1990 to 02.03.1990).
  • Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslav, Russia (from 13.06.1993 to 19.06.1993).
  • Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia: from 26.06.2004 to 16.07.2004 and from 27.05.2005 to 07.06.2005.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (see here for details):

• More than 80 titles, including:
  • 2 monographs
  • more than 30 papers in specialized journals
  • 25 JINR Communications
  • 7 chapters in books
  • more than 60 electronic preprints

MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF:

• International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics - since 2004 
  

MEMBER OF THE ORGANIZING COMETEE OF:

• International Workshops on "Complex Structures(, Integrability) and vector Fields", Bulgaria

OTHER CREDENTIALS:

• 1986: Master SCUBA Diver
• 1988: Skipper of seagoing vessel up to 20 GT (Gros Ton)
• 1989: Driving licence categories B & M
• 1996: Diving instructor
• 1998: SCUBA diving instructor

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