Dr. Daniela Doneva from the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy has been awarded the Gustav Hertz Young Scientist Award of the German Physical Society for 2024.
Dr. Doneva’s scientific developments are in the field of cosmology. Her research is devoted to the study of black holes and neutron stars in generalized scalar-tensor theories of gravitation.
Dr. Doneva acquired the scientific and educational degree “Doctor” at the Faculty of Physics of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” under the supervision of Corr. Memb. Stoycho Yazadzhiev. Since 2012, she has been working at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for the period 2012-2015 and participated in the Margarete von Wrangell Habilitation Programme (2015-2018). In 2018, she won the Pythagoras Grand Prize for Young Scientist of the Ministry of Education and Science. A year later, she also won the prestigious Emmy Noether Research Fellowship and has since been the head of an independent research group on gravitation and relativistic astrophysics at the University of Tübingen.
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