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Personal data
- Date, place of birth: 05 February 1950, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Nationality: Bulgarian
Education and academic degrees
- MS Control Engineering, 1972, Technical University, Sofia
- MS Mathematics, 1978, The University of Sofia
- PhD Physiology, 1978, Institute of Physiology, BAS, Sofia
- DSc Physiology, 1993, Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia
- Corresponding member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2008
Professional career
- Institute of Control Engineering, Sofia, Engineer, 1972-1974
- Institute of Physiology, BAS, Sofia, Postgraduate Fellow, 1975-1978
- Institute of Physiology, BAS, Sofia, Research Associate, 1978-1982
- Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia, Research Associate, 1978-1988
- Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia, Associate Professor, 1988-1998
- Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia, Scientific Secretary, 1989-1999
- Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia, Head of department “Excitable Structures”, 1989-2019
- Member of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1991-2019
- Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia, Professor, 1998-present
- Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia, Deputy Director, 1999-2001
- Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Sofia, Director, 2001-2010
- Southwest University, Visiting Professor – biomechanics and kinesiology, 2006- 2008
- Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Director, 2010-2019
Research interests
- Main field: Neurophysiology of motor control in normal man, and in disorders of the central nervous system.
- Other fields: Biophysics of biopotentials / electromyography
- Current interests: Sensorimotor control mechanisms; pattern of discharges of single motor units during voluntary muscle activity; muscle fatigue; surface EMG and single motor unit EMG, Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Honours, Awards, Fellowships
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellow, Clinic of Neurology, Munich Technical University, Germany, 1980-1981.
- Exchange Program on Motor Control with the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, Department of Physiology – Visiting Professor, 1986-1987.
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Clinic of Neurology, University Bonn, Germany, 1990-1991.
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Clinic of Neurology, Medical University, Hannover, Germany, 1997.
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – reinvitation, Clinic of Neurology, Medical University, Hannover, Germany, 2000.
- NATO grant (co-director together with Prof. R. Dengler, MH Hannover) for organization of Advance Research Workshop “Sensorimotor Control”, October, 12-14, 2000, Varna , Bulgaria
- Corresponding member of German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology because of his contributions to motor system physiology and motor control and his cooperation with German clinical neurophysiologists, 2003
- Research cooperation entitled „Studies of sensorimotor integration in dystonic and extrapyramidal system disorders” in the frames of Alexander von Humboldt Institute partnership project between Neurologische Klinik, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) (Prof. Reinhard Dengler) and Institute of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) (Prof. Andon Kossev), 2003-2006.
- South Bank University, London – Visiting Professor and Consultant, 2007
- Honorary President of the Bulgarian Society of Physiological Sciences, 2011
- Decoration „SIGNUM LAUDIS” of Medical University Varna, 2011
Membership in professional societies
- Bulgarian Society of Physiological Sciences, President 2003 – 2007
- Bulgarian Union of Scientists
- Bulgarian Humboldt Club
- Bulgarian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Bulgarian Society of Neuroscience
- Bulgarian Union of Mathematicians – Division “Biomathematics”
Research activity
- Total numbers papers: 120
- Number of papers in refereed journals: 80 plus
- Books: 2
- Number of communications to scientific meetings: 130 plus
