CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION
- Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

BACKGROUND
- Doctor of Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 2005
- Master of Management Information Systems, Sofia University, Bulgaria 1999
(graduation with distinction).

INTERESTS: Business Modeling; Information Systems Design; Business-IT Alignment and Traceability; Enterprise Interoperability; Software Application Specification; Software Components; Component-Based Development; Service-Oriented Computing; Model Driven Engineering; Aspect-Oriented Software Development; Mobile Systems; Context-Aware Systems; Pervasive Computing; Middleware; Workflow Management; Simulation; Coordination; Ontologies; Data Analysis; Language Action Perspective; Organizational Semiotics; Unified Modeling Language; Petri Net.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- since 2015: Assistant Professor (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
- since 2013: President of AMAKOTA Ltd.
- 2008 - 2013: part-time Assistant Professor (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- since 2007: IICREST’s Chairman
- 2005 - 2008: Postdoc (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
- 2004 - 2005: ERP Consultant (Weast Ven Man B.V., The Netherlands)
- 2000 - 2004: PhD Researcher (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- 1997 - 1999: Analyst (Holding Sveta Sofia PLC, Bulgaria)
- 1995 - 1996: Project Director (Information Environmental Centre, Bulgaria).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND SPECIALIZATIONS
- 11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18: Chair of BMSD
- 11: General Chair of CLOSER
- 10/11: Chair of INNOV
- 09/10/11: General Chair of CSEDU
- 06/07/08/09/10/11: Program Chair of ICSOFT
- 07/08/09/10/11: Program Chair of ICE-B
- 07/08/09: Program Chair of EHST
- 07/08/09/10/11: Chair of I-WEST
- 06/07/08/09/10/11: Program Committee Member of a number of International Conferences
- 2004: Invited participation in a project of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 2002: Awarded Honorary Research Associateship, University of Reading, United Kingdom
- 2001: Awarded Honorary Research Associateship, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
- 1997: Awarded an ERASMUS Scholarship, Aristotle University, Greece.

PUBLICATIONS: Published over 10 book chapters and over 40 journal & conference papers (besides Doctoral and Master theses).

COMPUTER LITERACY: Windows; MS Office; Pascal/Delphi, C, Prolog, SQL, HTML, Java Scr., Statistica, Arena, Adobe PhotoShop.

LANGUAGES: English (fluent), Russian (very good); Bulgarian is mother tongue.

HOBBIES: Music and Traveling.