Personal Record
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Education
1982 - High school of mathematics, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
1993 - Ph.D., Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
Thesis title: "Iterative methods for solving differential equations on grids with local refinement"
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raytcho Lazarov; Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Panayot Vassilevski
Professional Record
1987-1988 Specialization, Laboratory of Numerical Methods, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1988-1991 Ph.D. student, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.
1992 Visiting research, Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA (2 months)
1992-2010 Research Associate, Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
1993-1994 PostDoc, Department of Mathematics, Technical University Leoben, Austria (18 months)
1994-1995 Visiting research, Department of Nuclear Metrology, ULB, Brussels, Belgium (10 months)
1996 Visiting research, Department of Mathematics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany (3 months)
1999-2000 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Germany (18 months)
2000-2008 Research Associate, Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Germany (DFG Project)
2003, 2007, 2008 Research Fellowship, Mathematical Section, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (1 month)
2008-present Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Bielefeld, Germany
Fields of Research
Numerical methods for partial differential equations;
Multigrid and domain decomposition methods;
Adaptive grid refinement, a posteriori error estimators;
Structural optimization, nonlinear programming;
Elasticity problems, homogenization, microstructures;
PDE constrained optimization, multiscale problems;
Mathematical aspects of materials science;
Teaching
Numerical Linear Algebra;
Numerical Methods for PDEs;
Linear and Nonlinear Programming;
Interpolation and Approximation;
Sparse Matrix Computations;
Applied Structural Optimization;
Languages
English, German, Russian; Bulgarian (native)
