Институт по минералогия и кристалография "Акад. Иван Костов" - Българска академия на науките

CURRICULUM VITAE:

Place of birth: Teteven

Date of birth: 30.09.1959

Nationality: Bulgarian

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES OBTAINED:

1977-1981 Higher education: Sofia University, Department of geology and geography, MSc in Mineralogy-geochemistry

1997- Doctor’s degree in Geology, CLMC-BAS, Thesis “Calorimetric study of the formation and properties of zeolites”

ACADEMIC POSITIONS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Currently:  Associate Professor in Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, laboratory of thermal analysis Professor, Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, Acad. Ivan Kostov ", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMC-BAS)

FIELD OF INTEREST:

- Mineralogy and Crystallography: Sorbents, ion-exchangers, heat-exchangers, zeolites, clay minerals and their analogues, hydroxyl salt minerals; polycomponent oxides systems; catalysts; new materials with biological potentials; nanocomposite materials; ecology

- Тhermal analysis (Calorimetry, DTA/DSC, TG

LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS:

1. Ferdov, A. Lopes, J.  Araujo, B. Shivachev, R. Titorenkova, N. Petrova, R. Nikolova “Three-Dimensional (3D) Microporous Iron Silicate with an Imandrite Type of Structure”, Inorganic Chemistry, 60, 7, American Chemical Society, 4563-4568,  2021.

2. Ferdov, B. Shivachev,  R. Titorenkova, N. Petrova, M. Tarassov, R. Nikolova “Indium silicate with an imandrite type of structure”, RSC Advance 12(20) 12531-12536, 20229, 2022.

3. V. Nikolov,  R. Nikolova,  N. Petrova,  I. Koseva, N. Kuvandjiev “Structural and thermal investigations of Li2CaGe6O14 as a new compound in the system Li2O–CaO-GeO2”, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 166,110710, 2022.

4. C.  Rösche, N. Waeselmann, N. Petrova, Th. Malcherek, J.  Schlüter, B.  Mihailova „Oxidation processes and thermal stability of actinolite”, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 49(12), 47, 2022.

5. L. Dimowa, N. Petrova, Y. Tzvetanova, O. Petrov, I.  Piroeva "Structural Features and Thermal Behavior of Ion-Exchanged Clinoptilolite from Beli Plast Deposit (Bulgaria)",  Minerals 12 (12) 1576, 2022.

6. R. Nikolova, N. Petrova, Z. Delcheva, L. Tsvetanova, Ts. Stanimirova,  I. Piroeva "Serpierite polytypoids from Zvezdel, Bulgaria, and Lavrion, Greece", Mineralogy and Petrology, 117, 1 27-38,  2023. 

7. A Stoyanova-Ivanova, M. Georgieva, V. Petrov, J. NR Martins, L. Andreeva, A. Petkov, N. Petrova, V.  Georgiev "Thermal Behavior Changes of As-Received and Retrieved Bio-Active®(BA) and TriTanium®(TR) Multiforce Nickel–Titanium Orthodontic Archwires" Materials 16 (10), 3776, 2023