The Department of Physics at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy was established in 1958. Prof. Lubomir Christov had been the first Department's Chair, succeeded later on by Prof. Zaiatchki, Prof. Vodenicharov and Prof. Kanasirski.

The Department staff consists of 6 assoc. professsors, 7 assist. professors ( 7 PhD ) and 2 engineers, which teach lectures, seminars and laboratory exercises on Genaral Physics, Solid State Physics, Semiconductor Physics, Physics of Polymers and Biophysics, some of them in French and German. For student education four laboratories have been established and many textbooks have been published by the staff of the Department.

Research has been carried out on the following areas :

Solid State Physics

Physics of Polymers

High Energy Physics

High Power Microwave Sources

Physics Education

Two laboratories, for thin films and polymer investigations operate for many years. Fruitful scientific collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, has been maintained since 1962, as well as many others with the University of Bonn, Germany; the Center for Nuclear Reasearch, Saclay, France; Fermilab, Batavia, USA; the Technological University of Aachen, Germany; the Institute for Nuclear Physics, Juelich; the Polytechnik of Lodz, Poland; Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat-Jena, Germany University of Martin-Luther "Halle-Wittenberg", Germany; University of the Federal Armed Forced Munich, Germany; University of Minho, Portugal; Wroclaw Universitry of Technology, Poland; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Mahatma Gandy University, India; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Suisse; University of Odense, Denmark.

Former members

Name

E-mail

    Prof. Christov, Lubomir Georgiev, Dr.Sci. (1918 - 1995)
    Prof. Zayatchki,Velko Jordanov, Dr.Sci.
    Prof. Kanasirski, Christo Manolov, Dr.Sci.   kanasir@uctm.edu
    Prof. Vodenicharov,Christo Michailov, Dr.Sci.   vodenich@uctm.edu
    Prof. Devenski, Petko Alexandrov, Dr.Sci.   devens@uctm.edu
    Prof. Zlatanov, Zlati Mintchev, Dr.Sci. (1934 - 2001)
    Assoc.Prof. Damianov, Stanko Stoianov, Dr.Sci.   st_dam@hotmail.com
    Assoc.Prof. Georgieva, Iriana Ivanova, PhD (1933 - 1996)
    Assoc.Prof. Mintcheva, Lilia Dobreva, PhD
    Assist.Prof. Marinova, Elena Stefanova
    Assist.Prof. Nikolov, Serafim Mihailov   snikolov@tu-sofia.acad.bg
    Assist.Prof. Stanchev, Alexandar Alexandrov (1948 - 1998)
    Assist.Prof. Stoilova, Tatiana Todorova   tstankova@inrne.bas.bg
    Assist.Prof. Traikova, Margarita Dimitrova
    Assist.Prof. Yovchev, Ciril Yordanov, PhD
University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 2003