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• 1974 Born in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 1997 Master of Science in Chemical Physics and Theoretical Chemistry at Department of Chemistry, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ” Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 2002 PhD at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centrum of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
• 2003 Research Associate at IOCCP.
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Expertise |
• Application of UV-VIS absorption and luminescent spectroscopy for steady state and dynamic photophysical investigations of media effect and fluorescent ability of organic compounds containing heteroatom: acridanones, benzoxazoles, benzothiazoles, cyanostilbenes, imidazolones, triazoles.
• Transient absorption study of intra- and intermolecular fluorescence quenching in pyridylindoles and pyridylbenzoindoles.
• DFT quantum-chemical calculations (Turbomole 5.8)
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Current Research |
Photophysical and photochemical characterization of heteroaromatic organic compounds and dyes with desired properties for application in nanotechnology and in information and communication technologies, namely as fluorescent laser dyes, fluorescent markers for biopolymers and nanoparticles of different nature and size, OLEDs, etc. |
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Visiting Fellowships |
• June - August 2008 Department of Physical Chemistry
(Prof. Eric Vauthey),
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland -
exchange grant within the European Science Foundation DYNA activity.
• May – October 2004, March – May 2005 Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (Prof. WJ Buma),
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands-
NWO Post-doctoral fellowship.
• October – November 2003, April 2004, October-November 2005 Laboratory of “Photochemistry and Spectroscopy”(Prof. Jacek Waluk), Institute of Physical Chemistry,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
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January – April 1999 Institute for Theoretical and Radiation Chemistry,
Vienna University, Vienna, Austria
- PhD scholarship of “Austrian Academic Exchange“(OAD), Federal Ministry of Science and Transport
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Membership in Scientific Organizations
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• Founding Member of the non-profit legal entity "Bulgarian Society for Organic and Metaloorganic Chemistry", founded in March 2004 with the purpose to disseminate scientific results and to support young scientists.
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Selected Publications |
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• Y. Nosenko, G. Wiosna-Sa yga , M. Kunitski , I. Petkova, A. Singh , W. J. Buma, R. P. Thummel, B. Brutschy,
J. Waluk “Proton transfer with a twist? Femtosecond Dynamics of 7-(2-pyridyl)indole in Condensed
Phase and in Supersonic Jets” ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 47 2008 32, 6037-6040.
• M. Kijak, I. Petkova, M. Toczek, G. Wiosna-Salyga, A. Zielinska, J. Herbich, R.P. Thummel and J. Waluk “Conformation-Dependent Photophysics of Bifunctional Hydrogen Bond Donor/Acceptor Molecules” Acta Physica Polonica A 112 2007 S105-S120
• I. Petkova, M.S. Mudadu, R.P. Thummel, I.H.M. van Stokkum, W.J. Buma and J. Waluk "Structure and Photophysics of 2-(2’-pyridyl)benzoindoles: the Role of Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds” J. Phys. Chem A 111 2007 11400-11409.
• G. Wiosna, I. Petkova, M.S. Mudadu, R.P. Thummel and J. Waluk, “Intra- and Intermolecular Fluorescence Quenching in 7-(Pyridyl)indoles” Chemical Physics Letters 400 2004 379-383.
• I. Petkova, P. Nikolov and St. Metzov, “Steady State and Dynamic Photophysical Properties of
2-Benzimidazoleacetonitrile-alpha-Phenylmethylenes and 1-Aryl-2,2-Dicyanoethenes”
Z. Naturforschung 59a 2004 1-6, 91-96.
• I. Petkova, A. Maroulis, C. Maroulis and P. Nikolov “Electronic Spectral Investigations upon the Photochemical Transformations of Some Substituted 1-(N,N-bisacyl)amino-4,5-diphenyl-
1,2,3-triazoles”, Z. Naturforschung 56a 2001 452-458.
• P. Nikolov, I. Petkova and St. Stojanov, “Media Effect upon the Fluorescence Ability of Differently Substituted alpha-Cyanostilbenes”, Z. Naturforschung 56a 2001 447-451.
• I. Timtcheva, V. Maximova, T. Deligeorgiev, N. Gadjev, K.H. Drexhage and I. Petkova, “Homodimeric Monomethine Cyanine Dyes as Fluorescent Probes of Biopolymers”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, B:Biology 58 2000 130-135.
• I. Petkova, P. Nikolov and V. Dryanska, “Photophysical Properties and Quantum Chemical Calculations of Differently Substituted 2-(2-phenylethenyl)-benzoxazoles and benzothiazoles”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A:Chemistry 133 2000 21-25.
• P. Nikolov, I. Petkova, G. Kohler and St. Stojanov, “Deactivation Processes and Hydrogen Bonding of Excited N-Substituted Acridanones”, Journal of Molecular Structure 448 1998 247-254.
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