General address to all staff!

Assoc.Prof. Radoslav Nakov, Ph.D.
Assoc.Prof. Mitko Paskalev, Ph.D.
Assoc.Prof. Vladimir Georgiev, Ph.D.
Assoc.Prof. Emil Vasilev, Ph.D.
Assistant Prof. Ana Lazarova, Ph.D.
Assistant Prof. Kalin Naydenov Ph.D.
Assistant Prof. Nikolai Petrov Ph.D.

Geologist Hristo Kiselinov
Ph.D. Student Tomislav Jelezarsky (Supervisor Res.Prof.Ivan Zagorchev, D.Sc.)

Prof. Ekim Bonchev, Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
(founder of the Department; Head of the Department from 1946 to 1986; deceased, 16.01.1992)

Prof. Ivan Zagorchev, D.Sc. Coresp.Member BAS (retired since 01.01 2010)
Prof. Christo Dabovski, D.Sc. Coresp.Member BAS (retired since 01.01.2010)
Prof. Julija Karagjuleva, (Head of the Department from 1987 to 1990; retired)
Prof. Ivan Haydutov, D.Sc.(Head of the Department from 1990 to 2001; retired)
Prof. Aleksandra Harkovska, D.Sc. (retired)
Prof. Tzanko Tzankov, D.Sc. (retired)
Prof. Vasil Vuchev, D.Sc. (deceased, 02.11.2001)
Prof. Stefan Shanov, D.Sc. (now - Head of the Laboratory of Neotectonics and Seismotectonics)
Assoc.Prof. Petar Gochev, Ph.D. (deceased, 24.10.1994)
Assoc.Prof. Vasil Kostadinov, Ph.D. (deceased, 03.06.1992)
Assoc.Prof. Ivan Bojanov, Ph.D. (deceased, 29.07.2003)
Assoc.Prof. Sava Savov, Ph.D. (deceased 2007)
Assoc.Prof. Sava Stoyanov, Ph.D. (retired)
Assoc.Prof. Zhivko Ivanov, Ph.D. (since 1969 at the University of Sofia; professor, retired)
Assoc.Prof. Margarita Matova (now - at the Laboratory of Neotectonics and Seismotectonics; retired since 2009)
Assoc.Prof. Jordan Maliakov, Ph.D. (deceased, 16.11.2009)
Assist.Prof. Boyan Vrablianski, Ph.D. (retired)
Assist.Prof. Ivan Batandzhiev, Ph.D. (retired)
Technician Yonka Zagorcheva (retired since 2010)

• Geotectonics; Regional Geology and Structural Geology of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula;
• Comparative Geotectonics;
• Structural Geology and Structural analysis: Thrust and Fault Tectonics; Fold Tectonics; Strain Analysis;
• Geodynamics and Tectonophysics; Plate Tectonics

• Geological evolution of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula in the early Phanerozoic;
• Tectonic maps of Bulgaria on the scale 1:500 000;
• Geological evolution and paleogeodynamics of Bulgaria in the Mesozoic and Tertiary;
• Geodynamics and geological evolution of the Late Alpine superimposed depressions in the East Rhodope Mts. and Upper Thrace;

Co-operation, consultations and special studies in the fields of: of geodynamics, geotectonics and structural geology of the Balkan Peninsula and SE Europe; co-operation in the theoretical aspects of structural analysis.