Assistant Professor Rumena Stancheva at the Institute of Polymers-BAS has won the “AQUACHIM” award of the Union of Chemists in Bulgaria for the “Best Thesis” defended in 2024 for the Master’s degree. Chemists and chemical engineers who graduated in the past academic year with the Bachelor's or Master's degree in various chemical specialties participated in the national competition. The topic of the awarded thesis is “Polypiperazine-Based Micelles of Mixed Composition for Gene Delivery”. Scientific supervisors are Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emi Haladjova and Prof. Dr. Rayna Bryaskova, and consultant is Prof. Dr. Stanislav Rangelov. The study has been carried out at the Institute of Polymers - BAS in collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Biology - BAS. The results are published in the Polymers international scientific [...]

The Institute of Optical Materials and Technologies (IOMT) hosted the "Advances in Materials Sciences and Photonics" second international conference AMSP'25, funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund. The conference, which took place from 15 to 18 July, brought together renowned specialists from Bulgaria, Taiwan, Italy, Greece and the UK in the field of materials and their applications in optoelectronics, sensorics and photonics. Students, PhD students, postdocs and young scientists participated in the event and presented their research work. Four young scientists were awarded with certificates and financial prizes for the best presentations in the form of oral and poster presentations.

The 21st National Symposium "Polymers 2025" with international participation was held from 29 June to 2 July in Kazanlak. The forum was launched in 1967 and over the years, it had established itself as the most significant event in the field of polymer science in Bulgaria, providing an opportunity for the presentation of scientific results, exchange of ideas and development of collaborations between Bulgarian and foreign scientists. The "Polymers 2025" Symposium was organized by the Institute of Polymers at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The Forum was held with financial support from the Bulgarian National Science Fund (project КП-06-МНФ/48). At the invitation of the organizers, this year's edition was honored with [...]

The Institute of Solid State Physics - BAS and Science Me Up organized a science and technology fair on June 7 at the Scientific Complex 2 of BAS. The event attracted the attention of more than 1500 visitors - schoolchildren, parents, students, teachers, researchers and friends. They participated in lectures, lab visits and pupil hands-on workshops. The organizers of the event - Assoc. Prof. Ekaterina Iordanova, Director of the Institute of Solid State Physics at BAS, and Mr. Yavor Kiryakov, Manager of Science Me Up, congratulated the participants of the Science Fair. Researchers from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Institute of Astronomy with the National Astronomical Observatory and the Central Laboratory for Solar Energy and New Energy Sources at BAS presented their work [...]