Assoc. Prof. Ana
Proykova, MS (1974) PhD in Physics (1981), DSci (Doctor Habil) (2008)
University of Sofia, Faculty of Physics
tel:(+359)-2-8161 828
e-mail: anap @
phys.uni-sofia.bg
URL:
http://cluster.phys.uni-sofia.bg/anap/
Current Positions:
- Head, Monte Carlo Group
(lab Modeling of physical processes), University of Sofia
- Coordinator of the
Integrated Research Center on Computational Sciences in the Microworld http://www.irc-cosim.uni-sofia.bg/about-us
- Member of the European
Commission (EC) Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health
Risks (SCENIHR) (March, 2009 – at present)
- Vice-President,
National Expert Council on Nanotechnologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
(NECNT-BAS) (2005 – at present) http://www.bas.bg/nano/
- Chair of the
chapter ”Theory, Modeling, Simulation”, NECNT-BAS, (2005 – at present)
- Program Committee
Member, NanoMatPro FP7-EU (2007- at present)
- National delegate to
the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) -(2007- at
present)
- Bulgarian representative
in the Member States Council on the international dialogue on responsible
research and development of nanotechnologies (March 2007 – at present))
- Member of the Executive
Council of the European Physical Society (March 2008 – at present)
- Member of the Advisory
Board of Insciences
- Team leader - IUPAP
Working Group on Women in Physics (2002-at present)
Concurrent Positions:
1999-2003
Vice-dean, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia
2002-2006 National Contact Point (NCP) -
Thematic Priority ‘NanoMatPro’, FP6 – EC
1998 (summer semester) Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Nuclear
Theory,
University of Washington, USA
1997 (spring) Invited Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain
(UCL), Belgium
1995 (January-October) Fulbright Professor at the University of
Chicago, USA
Previous
professional occupations and services:
·
Member of the Program
Committee of the NanoMatPro, EU-FP6 (2004- 2006)
·
Member, National
Scientific Commissions: Physics (2002-2004), Nanotechnology (2003 – at
present), Ministry of Education and Science
·
Member, Council Board
for the Research at the Universities (Ministry of Education and Science)
(2003-2008)
·
Member, Advisory Board
for International Education and Cultural Exchange Programs, Ministry of
Education and Science : (2001-2004)
·
Chair of the chapter
”Clusters and Nanoparticles” (2000-2004) NECNT-BAS
·
Member, Executive Board
of the Union of Physicists in Bulgaria (2001-2004)
·
Member of the Board of
Administration of the EPWS (2005-2009)
Editorship,
Editorial Boards, Reviewer
- Editor of the
International Journal of Molecular Science http://www.ijms.org/
- Guest-editor
for the special issue of IJMS devoted to the 70’th anniversary of RS Berry
http://www.mdpi.org/ijms/papers/i3010001.pdf
- Founder and
Editor of the annual proceedings "Meetings in Physics @ University of
Sofia" (since 1999). Published by Heron Press (Scientific Series)
Sofia
- Editor, Atomic
and Molecular Physics, Central European Journal of Physics (2006- at present)
- Referee of
Scientific Papers for Computer Physics Communications, Journal of
Chemical Physics, SMALL, Chemical Physics Lett,Internet Journal of
Molecular Science
- Evaluator at the
Physics panel for Marie-Curie (FP6)/People (FP7)
- Evaluator for
Research Infrastructures (FP7)
- Evaluator for Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme
Professional
visits and work at other universities:
- 2007 (May-June)
Visiting Researcher at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
- 2006 (February)
Visiting Researcher at National Chung-Hsing University,Taiwan
- 2005 (Sep-Nov)
& 2001 (February-June)& 2002 (January-February) &1999
&1996 (August-September) Visiting Professor, University of Chicago,
USA
- 2004 (Oct-Nov),
2003 (June), 2002 (March) Visiting Researcher University of Cologne
- 2004
(January-February) Visiting Scientist, National University of Singapore
- 2003 Invited
Scholar, Aspen Physics Center, USA (August)
- 2003 Visiting
Scientist at the Department of Physics and Engineering, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer Sheva and Jacob Blaustein Institute for
Desert Research, Israel (February-March,2003) ; Visitor at the Hebrew
University
http://www.bgu.ac.il/BIDR/research/phys/docs/dseep02-03rep.pdf
- 2000 Visiting
Professor at the University of Nagoya (JSPS Senior Fellow), Japan
- 1994, 1992
Visiting Researcher, Paul Scherer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
- 1993 Visiting
Researcher at the UCL, Belgium, May-October, (CEC-EU Grant) &1991
- 1991 (June-July)
& 1992 (May-June), 1986 & 1989 (two months) Visiting scholar at
the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy
- 1981,1985, 1986,
1989 (summer semesters) Senior Researcher at the Joint Institute for
Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, USSR
Invited talks – A.
Proykova (2008-2010)
- “Hybrid
computational methods for nanostructures”, 02.02.2010, Workshop on HPC
- “Modeling and
Simulation: Nanometrology Status and Future Needs”, Workshop on
Nanometrology, PRB – Braunschweig, Germany, 16-20.11.2009
- “Theory and
modelling in Nanoscience”, Second workshop of IRC-CoSim, 15-18.10.2009,
Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
- “Future and
emerging technologies at the Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia”,
October 22, 2009 (meeting with the EU representatives of FET program)
- “Nanoscience
paves the road for new technologies development”, 7th International
Student Conference of the Balkan Physical Union (ISCBPU-7) (Turkey,
Bodrum, 4-7.09.2009)
- "Platinum
Cluster Collisions With Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes", ISACC 2009,
USA, 13-17 July 2009
- “Modern Research
Trends in Physics – the Science at the Nanoscale”, June 30, 2009, Meeting
organized by the Bulgarian Union of Physicists – Sofia Branch
- “Metastable
states of metallic nanoclusters – size effects”, FET-NMP meeting,
Brussels, 27 May 2009
- “Physics at the
nanoscale – classical and/or quantum approaches”, 8 May 2009, BAS
- “Modeling
Physical Processes at the Nanoscale – Insight into Self-Organization of
Small Systems”, October 2008, 3rd ICWIP, Seoul, Korea
- “A Network of
Networks - the European Platform of Women Scientists”, EUMENT-net Regional
conference, May 16, 2008
- “Factors leading
to the under-representation of women in science and engineering”,
Technonav 2008, Konstanta, Romania, May, 23, 2008
- “Learning via
research”, 8th Fulbright International Conference dedicated to the 15th
ànniversary of the Bulgarian Fulbright Commission and the 120th
anniversary of the Sofia University, Sofia, April 11, 2008
Supervisor of Bachelor, Master, Ph.D. students, and Post-docs
Teaching in Atomic and Nuclear Physics
(ANP), Computational and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics; Cluster Physics;
Statistical Physics and its Applications
Teaching at the University of Sofia:
- Lecture course
on Quantum Physics (2009- at present) Master Level for engineers
- Lecture course:
Introduction of parallel programming, 2009-, for bachelors
- Lecture course
on Modeling of Nanostructures, Master Level, Faculty of Chemistry
- Lecture course:
Modeling of physical processes (2003- ) Master & Ph.D. level
- Lecture course:
Parallel programming with MPI (2005-at present) Master level at the
Faculty of Mathematics
- Lecture course:
Modeling in finite-size systems (1998- ) Bachelor & Master level
- Lecture course:
Atomic physics and interaction of radiation with matter (2005-at present)
Bachelor level (specialization Physics)
- Lecture course:
Atomic and Nuclear Physics for Bachelor Students in Nuclear Chemistry
(2007-at present)
Research of Finite-size systems; molecular and atomic clusters;
low-dimensional discrete systems; self-organization, carbon nanotubes and their
properties
Methods: Monte Carlo simulations, Molecular Dynamics Method, Density
functional theory, Cellular Automata
Recently funded projects:
- Co-NANOMET –FP7 project
(2009-2011) Modelling and Simulations in Nanometrology (leader of Work Package)
– funded by the EC
- IRC-CoSiM (Project
2008-2011) Computer Sciences in the Microworld (coordinator of the project),
Funded by the NSF-Bulgaria
- Centre of Excellence
on Innovation Technologies at the U of Sofia(project 2008-2011) (participant)
Funded by the NSF-Bulgaria
- SuperComputer Simulations
(CoE) (2008-2011) (participant) Funded by the NSF-BG
Completed Research Projects in
collaboration 2000-2009:
- COOREERS, CA- FP6,
NanoMatPro TP3 (Nanoscience, materials, production)
- Nanoforum, European
Union sponsored Thematic Network – FP5 http://www.nanoforum.org
- Platform of Women in
Science, SSA-FP6–Science and society & FP7 http://www.epws.org/ (2005-2009)
- Econophysics
& Sociophysics (with Prof. D. Stauffer, University of Cologne)
Funding: University of Cologne-University of Sofia partnership
- Molecular and
Atomic Clusters, Phase Transitions in Small Systems (The University of
Chicago, USA with Prof. RS Berry) Funding: NSF-USA (2002-2006)
- Magnetic
chromium clusters ( with Prof. D. Stauffer, University of Cologne)
Funding: University of Cologne-University of Sofia partnership (2004-2005)
- Ab initio
calculations of metal clusters (DFT - code, J. Chelikowski, Minnesota
Supercomputing Center, USA, 2001-2004)
- Finite-Size Scaling
Analysis (NATO CLG project with R.S. Berry: 2000-2002)
- Hydrogen Bond
Network & Clatrates (with Prof. Ohmine, Univ. of Nagoya, Japan, 2000)
- Potential Energy
Surface (PES) Analysis of Clusters (JSPS project, Japan: 2000)
Publications: http://cluster.phys.uni-sofia.bg/publications/
Languages: Russian, English, Bulgarian –
fluent; French, Italian -- read only
Awards and personal grants: Visiting Grant
EU_SSA (2007, Israel), Research Scientists Exchange Program Singapore-Bulgaria
(2003), Diploma for outstanding performance and lasting contribution (2002),
Mobility Grant from EU (1993), Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant (1995),TEMPUS
(1997),JSPS Fellow (1999), NATO CLG (2001),Visiting Scientists Grant (Israel,
2002)
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