C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

Name: Jordan Georgiev BRANKOV

Place of birth: Troyan, Bulgaria

Date of birth: June 9, 1945

Sex: Male

Marital status: Married No. of children: 2

Nationality: Bulgarian

Residence: Sofia, Bulgaria

Present position: Professor, Oct. 1994

Head of Laboratory, June 1983

Institution: Institute of Mechanics,

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Department: Laboratory of Thermodynamics and

Statistical Mechanics

 

Address:

(Office) Institute of Mechanics

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Acad. G. Bonchev Str., block 4

Sofia 1113, Bulgaria

Telephone: (+359 2) 713 52 34

Fax: (+359 2) 70 20 56

(home) Shipchenski Prohod Str., bl. 240, apt 36

Sofia 1111, Bulgaria

Telephone: (+359 2) 737 161

 

Academic qualifications

1. Academic degree: M.S. Physics

University/Iinstitute: Moscow State University, Moscow

Department/Speciality : Physics, Theoretical Physics

Date of award of title: Jan. 1970

2. Academic degree: Ph.D. Physics and Mathematics

University/Institute: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,

Dubna, Russia

Departnemt/Speciality: Laboratory of Theoretical Physics

Date of award of title: March 1974

3. Academic degree: D.Sc. Physics and Mathematics

University/Institute: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,

Dubna, Russia

Department/Speciality: Laboratory of Theoretical Physics

Date of award of title: April 1991

 

Previous employment

1. Position: Physicist (1970 - 1976)

Research Fellow (1976 - 1978)

Institution: Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear

Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Department: Neutron Optics

Address: Sofia, Bulgaria

2. Position: Junior Research Fellow (1971 - 1973)

(on leave of Research Fellow (1973 - 1976)

absence) Senior Research Fellow (1976)

Institution: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Department: Laboratory of Theoretical Physics

Address: Dubna, Russia

3. Position: Senior Research Fellow II degree (1979 - 1983)

Institution: Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics,

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Department: Mechanics of Solids

Address: Sofia, Bulgaria

 

Previous Research Stays Abroad

Oct. 1981 - Feb. 1982 MIT, Cambridge, USA

Visiting Scientist at the Chemistry Dept.,

Feb. 1982 - June 1982 Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Visiting Scientist at the Chemistry Dept.,

Sept. 1995 - Jan. 1996 Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium

Visiting Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics

 

Current fields of interest: Mathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics,

Self-Organized Criticality, Traffic Flow, Finite-Size Scaling

Knowledge of languages: English and Russian (very good)

French and German (limited knowledge)