African University of Science & Technology

Prof. Diana V. Shopova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

Education

  • 1975 - 1977: student in Sofia University, Faculty of Physics - physics of semiconductors
  • 1977 - 1982: continuation of high education in the State Technological University "Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys", Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, Department of Theoretical Physics - physics of metals, (Moscow, Russian Federation)
  • 1985 - 1990: PhD student in Lomonosov Moscow State University and Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics - Russian Academy of Sciences, (Moscow, Russian Federation)

Scientific career

  • 1982 - 1990: Physicist in Theoretical department in the Institute of Solid State Physics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 - 1994: Research fellow of 2nd rank in theoretical department
  • 1994 - 1998: Research fellow of 2nd rank in Laboratory " Collective Phenomena"
  • 1998 - 2004: Research fellow of 1st rank in Laboratory " Collective Phenomena"
  • 2004: Senior research fellow of 2nd rank (Associate Professor) in CP Laboratory of ISSP, BAS - Sofia, Bulgaria

Fields of expertise

Condensed matter theory - quantum fluids and solids, magnetism, superconductivity, phases and phase transitions.

Scientific works

31 (refereed) - 28 in English and 3 in Russian, published in Physics Letters A (North Holland, Amsterdam), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (London), Physical Review B (APS, New York)
Editor of issue:D. V. Shopova and D. I. Uzunov (eds.), Correlations, Coherence and Order (Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers, New York-London, 1999) 366 pp.