Leandar Litov#
| Membership Number: | 5615 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BULGARIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://litov.web.cern.ch/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8511-6883 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - now Professor in Nuclear and Particle Physics
- 2007 - 2012 Head, Atomic Physics Department, University of Sofia “St. Kl. Ohridski”
- 2003 - 2005 Scientific Associate CERN, EP Department
- 1997 - 2018 Associate Professor, Atomic Physics Dept., University of Sofia “St. Kl. Ohridski”
- 1985 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Head Assistant Professor, Atomic Physics Dept., University of Sofia “St. Kl. Ohridski”
- 1983 - 1990 Research Associate, Laboratory for Nuclear Problems, JINR-Dubna, Russia
- 1981 - 1983 Research Associate, Laboratory for Theoretical Physics, JINR-Dubna, Russia
- 1980 - 1981 Physicist, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia
- 1979 - 1980 Research Associate, Laboratory for Theoretical Physics, JINR-Dubna
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics with the CMS detector at CERN
- Group-theoretical methods in Quantum Field Theory and Supersymmetry
- Experimental set-up simulation and data analysis: algorithms and software for experimental set-up simulation and data analysis
- High performance computing and computer networks
- Computational and theoretical biophysics
- Rare processes: K-meson decays at HYPERON (Serpukhov), NA48/1, NA48/2, and NA62 (CERN)
- Design and construction of experimental equipment
- Space-time structure of hadron-nucleus interactions
Honours and Awards
- 1986 First Prize of JINR, Dubna, for the best experimental proposal
- 1990 First Prize of JINR, Dubna, for a series of papers on investigation of colour-screening effects in hadron-nucleus interactions
- 2005 Second Prize of JINR, Dubna, for measurement of form-factors of Ke3 decays
- 2007 Second Prize of Scientific and Educational Expo, Plovdiv, for "Virtual Screening and computer simulations for drug design"
- 2008 National Decoration "Golden Book" for contributions in the development of science and culture
- 2010 National Award "Pythagoras" for the most successful PhD supervisor
- 2013 National Award "Pythagoras" for exceptional achievements in the natural sciences
