I left, after my Habilitation, the National Forestry University. Now I belong to Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The new web page is under construction and can be seen following this link.


Dr. Liudmil Manolov Antonov

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Institute of Organic Chemistry
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G.Bonchev str., bdg. 9, Sofia 1113
Bulgaria
tel: ++359-2-8625103
fax: ++359-2-8700225
lantonov@orgchm.bas.bg 
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Prof. M. Mitewa
(c/o Dr. L. Antonov)
University of Sofia
Department of Chemistry
1 James Bourchier avenue
Sofia 1164, Bulgaria

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May 26, 1966
Born in Breznik, Bulgaria
1984
Graduated from Bulgarian National High School of Natural Sciences, Division of Chemistry
1984-1989
Study in the University of Sofia, Department of Chemistry. Received Master's degree in 1989 with the thesis "Application of computational methods for analysis of overlapping bands in the molecular spectroscopy"
1990-1993
PhD student, University of Sofia, Department of Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemical Technology, Laboratory for Molecular Spectroscopy
1993-1994
Research Chemist, University of Sofia, Department of Chemistry
1994
Received PhD degree with the thesis "Analysis of overlapped bands in the absorption UV-Vis spectroscopy - principal approach and its applications"
1994-1995
Assistant Professor, Higher Forestry Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1995-1996
One year UNESCO research grant at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Project: "Theoretical investigations of the tautomerism of some phenylazonaphthols" with supervisors Prof. Dr. T.Iijima, Prof. Dr. J.Komiyama, Assoc. Prof. Dr.M.Satoh, Dr. S.Kawauchi
1995-1998
Main Assistant Professor, National Forestry University (former Higher Forestry Institute), Department of Ecology, Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1996
-Young Scientist Award for Contribution in the Instrumental Methods for Analysis (Spektroteh-Varian, Bulgaria); Project: "A method for obtainment of high informative derivatives from spectra recorded linearly to the wavelength" 
1998-2006
Associate Professor, National Forestry University, Department of Ecology, Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1999-2001
Head, Group of Instrumental analysis and Environmetrics, Bulgarian-Swiss (National Forestry University, Bulgaria - Institute for Applied Plant Biology, Switzerland) project 2 "Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems"
1999-2004
Head, Division of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Ecology, National Forestry University
2000-2003
Visiting Researcher at The Laser Centre, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Four months project: "Time dependent fluorescence studies of solvent effects on proton transfer reactions in tautomeric phenylazonaphthols" in collaboration with Prof. Dr. C.Gooijer and Dr. G. van der Zwan in the frame of European Large Scale Laser Facilities Cluster, EU-TMR Programme
2001
-Academic Expert of The National Committee for Accreditation of Higher Education, part Institutional Accreditation of University of Sofia
-Member of The Chemistry Panel (Improving Human Potential - Research and Training Networks), European Commission
2002
Coordinator for Bulgaria of The Institutional Partnership (2002-2004) "Balkan-Swiss Network for teaching and research on functional properties of organic molecules used in advanced technologies" supported by The Swiss National Science Foundation. 
2002, 2006
Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Fellow at the  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Research Photonics Institute, Kansai Center, Osaka, Japan. Project: "Femtosecond study of the third order nonlinear optical activity of some azobenzenes and simple Schiff bases" in collaboration with Prof. Dr. K.Ohta and Dr. K.Kamada
2003-2004 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin. Project: "Tautomer influenced complexation or  complexation determined tautomerism" with Prof. Dr. W.Rettig
2006 Received DSci degree with the thesis "Computer Enhanced Spectroscopy and its Technological Applications"
2007-

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Data Processing of Absorption Spectra
resolution of overlapping bands; estimation of the number of the individual bands; smoothing and optimization procedures
Derivative Spectroscopy
approaches for increasing of signal-to-noise level; estimation of the number of overlapping bands; quantitative analysis
Dye Chemistry 
properties of dyes in solution and solid state investigated by UV-Vis spectroscopy and quantum chemistry; colour properties and related phenomena (aggregation, tautomerism, protonation, complexation); structure-properties relations
Analysis of Tautomeric Equilibria (Proton Transfer)
approaches for quantitative analysis of tautomeric equilibria; solvent and temperature effects; effect of the substituents
Analysis of Undefined Mixtures
methods for analysis of mixtures with unknown spectra of the pure components and their application
Macrocyclic Ligands (Optical sensors)
properties of the crowns in solution investigated by UV-Vis spectroscopy and quantum chemistry; new approaches for investigation of complexation processes with low stability constants
Ecology (Environmental Analytical Chemistry)
statistical and mathematical methods for interpretation of large data sets related to environmental objects, adaptation and validation of standard methods for analysis of rain and underground water, plant and soil materials, experimental design in sampling

LIST OF THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

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Group
Since
Cooperation
Prof. Dr Mariana Mitewa, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
1993

Synthesis and Spectral Properties of Aza-15-crown-5 containing Ligands
Prof. Dr T.Iijima, Prof. Dr M.Satoh and Dr S.Kawauchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
1995
Tautomerism of azonaphthols
Dr Fadhil S.Kamounah, CISMI, University of Roskilde, Denmark
1997
Synthesis and Spectral Studies of Tautomeric Schiff Bases
Prof. Dr Walter M.F.Fabian, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
1998
Substituent and Solvent Effects in Tautomeric Dyes
Prof. Dr Mikael Kubista, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
1999
Chemometrics
Dr Gert van der Zwan, Laser Centre, Vrije University of Amasterdam, The Netherlands
2000
 Mechanism of Proton Transfer
Prof. Dr Valerio Bertolasi, Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro di Strutturistica Diffrattometrica, University of Ferrara
 2001
 Crystal Studies and H-bonding in Tautomeric Azonaphthols and Schiff Bases
Prof. Dr Koji Ohta and Dr Kenji Kamada, Photonics Research Institute, AIST, Kansai Center, Osaka, Japan
 2002
 Two-Photon Absorption of some simple Azocompounds and Schiff Bases
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Rettig, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 2003 Proton Transfer and Photoisomerization of Stilbenoid Schiff Bases
Prof. Dr Jacob Wirz and Prof. Dr Katharina Fromm, University of Basel, Switzerland 2005
 		Macrocycle Chemistry

 
  

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