The National Archaeological Institute with a Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) opened the fourteenth national archaeological exhibition “Bulgarian Archaeology 2020” on 11 February 2021. The opening was attended by the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev, the Deputy Mayor of Sofia Assoc. Prof. Todor Chobanov and the President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy. […]
The Ambassador of the Republic of France to Bulgaria, H.E. Florence Robin, visited the Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology (IMicB) together with Veneta Salyahetdinova, a tenth-grader from Blagoevgrad, winner of the “Ambassador for a Day” competition. The director of the institute, Prof. Penka Petrova, presented the laboratories of the departments "Immunology", "Virology" and Laboratory Center "Pasteur", which carry out research to counter the pandemic of COVID-19. The Department of Immunology is developing two research projects funded by the Institut Pasteur in Paris. The VacciNanoCor project is led by Prof. Andrey Tchorbanov and aims to develop a Bulgarian vaccine against SARS-Cov-2. The young scientist Dr. Milena Leseva told about the progress of the project "m6A_RAIAV" related to research on socially significant diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis [...]
The General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences elected eight scientific secretaries of the Academy. The election is in connection with the expiration of the term of office of the scientific secretaries of BAS. The discussion and vote took place at a meeting on 8 February. The following were elected Scientific Secretaries with a mandate of 2021-2024: Division of Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivan Georgiev, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at BAS; Division of Energy Resources and Energy Efficiency - Prof. Sevdalina Dimitrova, DSc (second term), Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy at BAS; Division of Nanosciences, New Materials and Technologies - Prof. Margarita Popova, DSc, Institute of Organic Chemistry with Center for Phytochemistry at BAS; [...]
The National Archaeological Institute with a Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) is going to present the fourteenth national archaeological exhibition "Bulgarian Archaeology 2020" from 12 February to 2 May 2021. Traditionally, the exhibition shows the most interesting finds and rich illustrative material from the field work of Bulgarian archaeologists in the previous year. It is organized on the occasion of the Archaeologist's Day, 14 February. "Despite the serious difficulties caused by the spread of the coronavirus in Bulgaria, 2020 was a very important and successful year for Bulgarian archaeology. Our work covered large-scale rescue excavations and numerous planned studies throughout the country. We received funding for more than 100 projects," said the director of NAIM at BAS, Assoc. Prof. Dr. [...]
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is home to the largest center for research and education in the nuclear field in Bulgaria. This is the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), said Prof. Dimitar Tonev, Deputy Director of the INRNE during the meeting with representatives of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (NEA). It was held online on 20 January 2021 on the occasion of Bulgaria's admission as a member of the Agency. The purpose of the meeting was to determine the areas of interaction, working methods and ways of cooperation and support between the two organisations. In his speech, Prof. Tonev highlighted the need for new staff, especially after the decision of the Council of Ministers to [...]
The implementation of the first stage of the project "Distributed system of scientific collections - Bulgaria (DiSSCo-BG)" started with an online meeting of the team. Тhe project will be implemented by the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER-BAS) and the National Museum of Natural History (NMNHs-BAS), united in the consortium "Upgrading distributed scientific infrastructure: Distributed system of scientific collections-Bulgaria (DiSSCo-BG)". The consortium is the Bulgarian unit in the pan-European distributed research infrastructure DiSSCo, recognized as a research infrastructure of European importance and included in the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in 2018. The project is also realized as part of the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures for the period 2020-2027. The main goal of the scientists from BAS is [...]
