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Name

 

Victor Genchev Ivanov

Professional address

 

Sofia University, Faculty of Physics, 5 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

Telephone

 

+359 886 62 06 69

E-mail

 

vgiATphys.uni-sofia.bg

Nationality

 

Bulgarian

 

Date of birth

 

26.01.1967

 

Work experience

              

• Dates (from – to)

 

16.10.1995 – 22.07.1997

• Name and address of employer

 

Sofia University

• Type of business or sector

 

Research, Education

• Occupation or position held

 

assistant

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

23.07.1997 – 16, 01.2006

• Name and address of employer

 

Sofia University

• Type of business or sector

 

Research, Education

• Occupation or position held

 

Senior assistant

 

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

01.05.2003 – 01.08.2003

• Name and address of employer

 

Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxell

• Type of business or sector

 

Research

• Occupation or position held

 

Maître de Conférences Associé

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

01.05.2004 – 01.07.2004

• Name and address of employer

 

Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxell

• Type of business or sector

 

Research

• Occupation or position held

 

Maître de Conférences Associé

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

16, 01.2006-01.12.2018

• Name and address of employer

 

Sofia University

• Type of business or sector

 

Education, Research

• Occupation or position held

 

Associated Professor

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

01.10.2011 – 01.10.2018

• Name and address of employer

 

Sofia University

• Type of business or sector

 

Education, Research, Administration

• Occupation or position held

 

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Physics

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

Since 01.12.2018

• Name and address of employer

 

Sofia University

• Type of business or sector

 

Education, Research

• Occupation or position held

 

Full  Professor

 

 

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

01.11.2013-30.11.2013

• Name and address of employer

 

University of Nantes, France

• Type of business or sector

 

Research

• Occupation or position held

 

Invited Professor

 

 

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

15.11.2015-15.12.2015

• Name and address of employer

 

University of Nantes, France

• Type of business or sector

 

Research

• Occupation or position held

 

Invited Professor

 

 

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

30.11.2017-20.12.2017

• Name and address of employer

 

University of Nantes, France

• Type of business or sector

 

Research

• Occupation or position held

 

Invited Professor

 

 

 

Education and training

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

1981-1984

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

 

National High School of Math and Natural Sciences

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

 

Physics profile

• Title of qualification awarded

 

Secondary education

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

 

Secondary education

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

1984-1989

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

 

Sofia University

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

 

Physics

• Title of qualification awarded

 

Nuclear and elementary particle physics

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

 

Master degree

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

1991- 1995

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

 

« CoTutelles » program between the

Sofia University and Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxell (Nantes, France)

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

 

PhD student

• Title of qualification awarded

 

Doctor in “Electrical and Optical Properties of Condensed Matter”, profile # 01.03.26 (BG)

Docteur en « Physique des Matériaux » (FR)

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

 

Doctor

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

20.01.1999- 20.12.1999

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

 

Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxell (Nantes, France)

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

 

Postdoctoral fellowship

 

• Dates (from – to)

 

07.06.2017

• Name and type of organization providing education and training

 

Sofia University

•  Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

 

Doctor of Sciences (Doctor Habilitus) – code 4.1 Physical Sciences (Electric, magnetic and optical properties of condensed matter)

 

Personal skills

and competences

Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas.

 

 

Mother tongue

 

Bulgarian

 

Other languages

 

 

 

English

• Reading skills

 

excellent

• Writing skills

 

excellent

• Verbal skills

 

excellent

 

 

 

French

• Reading skills

 

excellent

• Writing skills

 

good

• Verbal skills

 

good

 

 

 

Russian

• Reading skills

 

excellent

• Writing skills

 

good

• Verbal skills

 

excellent

 

Research interests and competences

 

 

Solid state physics: superconductivity, magnetic oxides. Phonons in crystals and molecules. Polymer physics. Raman, infrared and photoluminescence spectroscopy. DFT calculations of the properties of solids.

 

 

Annexes:

 

 

 

1. List of publications

2. Participation in national and international projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annex 1.

List of publications

 

In refereed journals

1. V. G. Ivanov, V. G. Hadjiev and M. N. Iliev, "Oxygen Rearrangement due to laser heating and room-temperature ageing in RBa2Cu3O7-d (R = Nd,Y)", Physica C 235-240, 1255-1256 (1994).

2. V. G. Ivanov and M. N. Iliev, "Raman Spectroscopy Evidence for Structural Microphase Separation in NdBa2-xSrxCu3O7-d", Physica C 244, 293 (1995).

3. V. G. Ivanov, M. N. Iliev and C. Thomsen, "Micro-Raman Study of Isotope Substitution in  YBa2Cu318O6.2 during Local Laser Annealing", Phys.Rev.B 52,13652 (1995).

4. M. N. Iliev, V. G. Hadjiev, and V. G. Ivanov, "Raman Spectroscopy of Local Structure and Reordering Processes in YBa2Cu3O7–d – Type Compounds", Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 27, 333 (1996).

5. E. Faulques, V. G. Ivanov, "Raman Lineshapes from Sputtered Thin Films of Y(Pr)Ba2Cu3O6+x: A Study of Fine Structures and Oxygen Ordering", Phys.Rev. B 55, 3974 (1997).

6. M. N. Iliev, A.P. Litvinchuk, H.-G. Lee, C. L. Chen, L.M. Dezaneti, C. W. Chu, V.G. Ivanov, M.V. Abrashev, and V. N. Popov, "Raman Spectroscopy of SrRuO3 Near the Paramagnetic-to-Ferromagnetic Phase Transition", Phys. Rev. B 59, 364 (1999).

7. M.V. Abrashev, A.P. Litvinchuk, M.N. Iliev, R.L. Meng, V.N. Popov, V.G. Ivanov, R.A. Chakalov, and C. Thomsen, "Comparative Study of Optical Phonons in the Rhombohedrally Distorted Perovskites LaAlO3 and LaMnO3", Phys. Rev. B 59 (6), 4146 (1999).

8. M. V. Abrashev, V. G. Ivanov, M. N. Iliev, R. A. Chakalov, R. I. Chakalova, and  C. Thomsen, "Raman Study of the Variations of the Jahn-Teller Distortions through the Metal-Insulator Transition in Magnetoresistive La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 Thin Films", Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 215 631 – 636 (1999).

9. E. Faulques, V. G. Ivanov, C. Meziere, P. Batail, “Phonon-self-energy effects in k-(BEDT—TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br”, Phys. Rev. B 62 (14), R9291 (2000).

10. M. N. Iliev, A. P. Litvinchuk, M. V. Abrashev, V. G. Ivanov, H. G. Lee,  W. H. McCarroll, M. Greenblatt, R. L. Meng, and C.W.Chu, "Raman Monitoring of Dynamical Jahn-Teller Distortions in Rhombohedral Antiferromagnetic LaMnO3 and Ferromagnetic Magnetoresistive La0.93 Mn0.98 O3", Physica C 341-348, 2257 - 2258 (2000).

11. G. V. Kamarchuk, A. V. Khotkevich, V. M. Bagatsky, V. G. Ivanov, P. Molinie, A. Leblanc, and E. Faulques, “Direct determination of Debye temperature and electron-phonon interaction in 1T-VSe2”, Phys. Rev. B 63 (7), 73107 (2001).

12. Ragot, F.; Ivanov, V.; Wery, J.; Garcia, A.; Perry, D. L.; Ouvrard, G.; E. Faulques, “Spectroscopy of a Eu(III)-imidazolate complex”, Synthetic Metals 120 (ER1-3), 773 (2001)..

13. E. Faulques, J. Wery, S. Lefrant, V. G. Ivanov, and G. Jonusauskas, “Transient Photoluminescence in para-hexaphenil layers”, Phys. Rev. B 65, 212202 (2002).

14. Ragot F., Belin S., Ivanov V.G., Perry D.L., Ortega M., Ignatova T.V., Kolobov I.G., Masalitin E.A., Kamarchuk G.V., Yeremenko A.V., Wéry J., Molinié P., and Faulques E., Electronic and magnetic dynamic properties of imidazolate complexes, Materials Science, 20,  3 (2002).

15. S. Laverdiere, S. Jandl, A.A. Mukhin, V. Yu. Ivanov, V.G. Ivanov, and M.N. Iliev, “Spin-phonon coupling in orthorhombic RMnO3 (R= Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd Tb, Dy, Ho, Y): A Raman Study”, Phys. Rev. B 73, 214301 (2006).

16. E. Faulques, V. G. Ivanov, G. Jonusauskas, H. Athalin, O. Pyshkin, J. Wery, F. Massuweau, and S Lefrant, “Ultrafast photoluminescence spectroscopy of exciton-exciton annihilation in nanoscale ordered oligoaniline films” , Phys. Rev. B 74, 075202 (2006).

17.  J. Laverdière, S. Jandl, A. A. Mukhin, V. Yu. Ivanov, V. G. Ivanov, and M. N. Iliev, “Erratum: Spin-phonon coupling in orthorhombic RMnO3 (R=Pr,Nd,Sm,Eu,Gd,Tb,Dy,Ho,Y): A Raman study”  Phys. Rev. B 74, 179902 (2006).

18. Georgi B. Hadjichristov, V.G. Ivanov, Eric Faulques, “Reflectivity modifications of polymethylmethacrylate by silicon ion implantation”, Applied Surface Science 254, 4820-4827, (2008).

19. G.B. Hadjichristov, V.K. Gueorguiev, Tz.E. Ivanov, Y.G. Marinov, V.G. Ivanov, E. Faulques, “Silicon ion implanted PMMA for soft electronics”, Organic Electronics 9, 1051 (2008),

20. G. B. Hadjichristov, Tz. E. Ivanov, V. K. Gueorguiev, Y. G. Marinov, I. Stefanov, V. G. Ivanov, E. Faulques, “Silicon ion implanted PMMA field-effect structure with electronic memory”, J. Ovonic Res. 5 (1) 9-13 (2009).

21. V. G. Ivanov, G.B. Hadjichristov, and E. Faulques, “Characterization of chemical bonding in ion-implanted polymers by means of mid-infrared reflectivity”, Appl. Spec 63 (9),  1022-1026 (2009).

22. G. B. Hadjichristov, V. K. Gueorguiev, Tz. E. Ivanov, Y. G. Marinov, V. G. Ivanov, E. Faulques:, “The transconductance of nano-clustered subsurface layer in Si+-implanted PMMA”, J. Optoelectron. Adv. Mater. 11(9), 1206-1209 (2009).

23. G. B. Hadjichristov, I. L. Stefanov, B. I. Florian, G. D. Blaskova, V. G. Ivanov, Eric Faulques, “Optical reflectivity study of silicon ion implanted poly(methyl methacrylate).”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 256 (3), 779 (2009).

24. S. T. Ivanov, V. G. Ivanov, S. S. Lishev, “A classical qualitative åxplanation of ordering and immersion of the atomic shells”, Chemistry 18, (5) 391 (2009).

25. N.D.Todorov, M. N. Abrashev, V.G. Ivanov, and E. Vlakhov, “Optical phonons in NdBaCo2O5+x: lattice dynamic calculations.”, CP1203, 7th International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, eds. A. Angelopoulos and T. Fildisis, AIP Conference Series 1203, 1003–1006 (2010).

26. G.B. Hadjichristov, V.K. Gueorguiev, Tz.E. Ivanov, Y.G. Marinov, V.G. Ivanov, E. Faulques, “Electrical properties of PMMA ion-implanted with low-energy Si+ beam”, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 207 012022  (2010).

27. V. G. Ivanov, M. V. Abrashev, M. N. Iliev, M. M. Gospodinov, J. Meen, and M. I. Aroyo, “Short-Range B-site Ordering in Inverse Spinel Ferrite NiFe2O4”, Phys. Rev. B 82, 024104 (2010). Available at arXiv:1005.2244v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] (2010).

28. V. G. Ivanov, M.N. Iliev, Y.-H. A. Wang, and A. Gupta, “Ferromagnetic spinel CuCr2Se4 studied by Raman spectroscopy and lattice dynamics calculations”, Phys. Rev. B 81, 224302  (2010). Available at: arXiv:1005.2245v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] (2010).

29. N D Todorov, M V Abrashev, V. G. Ivanov, G V Avdeev, and S C Russev, “Synthesis and characterization of RBaCo2O5+𝑥 (R = La, Nd, Gd, Y and Ho)”, J.Phys. Conf. Ser. 253 012071, (2010).

30. V. G. Ivanov and G.B. Hadjichristov, “Orientation of sp2 carbon nanoclusters in ion-implanted polymethylmethacrylate as revealed by polarized Raman spectroscopy”, J. Raman Spec. 42, 1340 (2011).

31. M. N. Iliev, V. G. Ivanov, N. D. Todorov, V. Marinova, M. V. Abrashev, R. Petrova, Y.-Q. Wang, and A. P. Litvinchuk, “Lattice dynamics of the a and b phases of LiFe5O8”, Phys. Rev. B 83, 174111 (2011).

32. V. G. Ivanov, B. Aguilar Reyes, E. Fritsch, and E. Faulques, “Vibrational states in opals revisited”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 115, 11968 (2011).

33. N. D. Todorov, M. V. Abrashev, V. G. Ivanov, G. G. Tsutsumanova, V. Marinova, Y.-Q. Wang, and M. N. Iliev, “Comparative Raman study of isostructural YCrO3 and YMnO3: Effects of   the structural distortions and the twinning”, Phys. Rev. B 83,  224303 (2011).

34. V. G. Ivanov, A. P. Litvinchuk, N. D. Todorov, M. V. Abrashev, and V. Marinova, “Infrared response of α- and β-phases of LiFe5O8”, Phys. Rev. B 84,  094111 (2011).

35. N D Todorov, M V Abrashev and V G Ivanov, “Frequency dependence of the quasi-soft Raman-active modes in rotationally distorted R3+B3+O3 perovskites (R3+ – rare earth, B3+ = Al, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Ga)”, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 24, 175404 (2012).

36. V. G. Ivanov, M. V. Abrashev,  N. D. Todorov, V. Tomov, R. P. Nikolova, A. P. Litvinchuk, and M. N. Iliev, “Phonon and magnon Raman scattering in CuB2O4”, Phys. Rev. B 88,  094301 (2013).

37. V. G. Ivanov, V. G. Hadjiev, A. P. Litvinchuk, D. Z. Dimitrov, B. L. Shivachev, M. V. Abrashev, B. Lorenz, and M. N. Iliev, “Lattice dynamics and spin-phonon coupling in CaMn2O4: A Raman study”, Phys. Rev. B 89, 184307 (2014).

38. J. H. Spencer, J. M. Nesbitt, H. Trewhitt, R. J. Kashtiban, G. Bell, V. G. Ivanov, E. Faulques, J. Sloan, and D. C. Smith, “Raman Spectroscopy of Optical Transitions and Vibrational Energies of ~1 nm HgTe Extreme Nanowires within Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, ACS Nano 8(9), 9044 (2014).

39. V. G. Ivanov, E, S. Vlakhov, G. E. Stan, M. Zamfirescu, C. Albu, N. Mihailescu, I. Negut, C. Luculescu, M. Socol, C. Ristoscu, and I. N. Mihailescu, “Surface-enhanced Raman scattering activity of niobium surface after irradiation with femtosecond laser pulses”, J. Appl. Phys. 118, 203104 (2015).

40. V. G. Ivanov, N. D. Todorov, L. S. Petrov, T. Ritacco, M. Giocondo, E. S. Vlakhov, “Strong surface enhanced Raman scattering from gold nanoarrays obtained by direct laser writing”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 764,  012023 (2016). doi: https://10.1088/1742-6596/764/1/012023

41. V. G. Ivanov, “Ampère currents versus magnetization charges: the theory behind Experimental Problem 2 at the 41st International Physics Olympiad”, Eur. J. Phys. 39, 055204 (2018), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aacfce.

42. V.G. Ivanov, N. Kalasniyk, J. Sloan, and E. Faulques, “Vibrational dynamics of extreme 2×2 and 3×3 potassium iodide nanowires encapsulated in single-walled carbon nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. B 98, 125429 (2018).

43. V. G. Ivanov, M. Dyulgerov, R. Oberti, “Polarized Raman spectroscopy and lattice dynamics of potassic-magnesio arfvedsonite”, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 46, 181-191 (2019), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-018-0996-4.

44. N. Kalashnyk, D.L. Perry, V.G. Ivanov, E. Faulques, “Combined experimentaland first-principles studies of a hydrated uranyl carbonate: Insight into phonon spectra for a coreenvironmental class of uranium materials”, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 138, 109260 (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2019.109260.

45. M. V. Abrashev, V. G. Ivanov, B. S. Stefanov, N. D. Todorov, J. Rossel, V. Skumryev, “Raman spectroscopy of alpha-FeOOH (goethite) near antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase transition”, Journal of Applied Physics 127, 205108 (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0006352

46. G. G. Tsutsumanova, N. D. Todorov, S. C. Russev, M. V. Abrashev, V. G. Ivanov, and A. V. Lukoyanov, “Silver Flowerlike Structures for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”, Nanomaterials 11 (12), 3184 (2021), doi: https:// doi.org/10.3390/nano11123184

47. E. Faulques, N. Kalashnyk, C. A. Slade, A. M. Sanchez, J. Sloan, V. G. Ivanov, “Vibrational and electronic structures of tin selenide nanowires confined inside carbon nanotubes”, Synthetic Metals 284, 116968 (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2021.116968

48. E. I. Shreder, A. A. Makhnev, K. G. Suresh, M. G. Kostenko, E. D. Chernov, V. G. Ivanov, A. V. Lukoyanov, “Comparative study of the electronic structure and optical properties of the Heusler alloys Co2MGa and Co2MAl (M = Fe and Ni)”, Modern Physics Letters B  36 (4), 2150573 (2022), doi: https:// doi.org/10.1142/S0217984921505734  

49. Victor G. Ivanov, Bozhidar D. Slavchev, “From Hydrogen to Beryllium: A Step-by-Step Spreadsheet-Based Introduction to the Concepts of Exchange and Correlation”, Journal of Chemical Education 101, 4282–4289 (2024), doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00777

 

 

In books and conference proceedings

1. M. Iliev, G. Bogachev, M. Abrashev, V. G. Ivanov, E. Liarokapis, and N. Poulakis, “Conductivity-Independent Fano Effect of the Ba (Ag) Phonon in R0.5Pr0.5Ba2Cu3O7.”, in “Anharmonic Properties of High-Tc Cuprates”, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995, pp.271.

2. V. G. Ivanov, "Interference Effects in the Resonant Raman Scattering from the Apical-Oxygen Vibrations in the Ortho-II Phase of YBa2Cu3Ox" , in “Spectroscopy of Superconducting Materials”, editor Eric Faulques, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 1999, pp 120.

3. V.G. Ivanov, “Scaled Quantummechanical Force Fields: A Promising Approach to the Molecular Vibrational Dynamics”, in “Spectroscopy of Emerging Materials”, eds. E. Faulques, D. Perry, A. Yeremenko, NATO Science Series, Vol. 165 (2004), pp. 339.

4. Ivan L. Stefanov, V. G. Ivanov, and Georgi B. Hadjichristov, “Laser-induced thermo-lens in ion-implanted optically-transparent polymer”, in “Proc. of the International Conference on Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics 2009”, edited by Solomon Saltiel, Alexander Dreischuh, Ivan Christov, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7501, pp. 75010Q-1 (2009), doi: https://10.1117/12.848572.

 

 

Annex 2.

Participation in national and international projects

Participation in 8 projects funded by the National Science Fund since 1995.

Participation in the International European Project CIPA -CT93-0032 (1992-1995). 

Participation in NATO PST.CLG.972846 (2000-2002).

Participation in NATO PST.CLG.979685 (2003-2005)

Participation in the collaborative grant PICS 4766 (France-Ukraine-Bulgaria, 2009-2012)

Coordinator of 9 projects funded by the Science Fund of the Sofia University since 2005

Coordinator from Bulgarian side of the French-Bulgarian bilateral project PAI-RILA 2/5 (2005-2007).

Coordinator from Bulgarian side of the PHC-RILA bilateral French-Bulgarian program (2016-2018).

Coordinator of the KP-06-15 project of Bulgarian-Russian bilateral program (2019-2021).