| Professor D.Sc. Georgi N. Vayssilov Doctor of Science in Theoretical Chemistry Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski" Manager of Bulgarian Science Fund e-mail: gnv@chem.uni-sofia.bg; vayssilov@abv.bg phone: +359 2 8161338; +359 879 353505 |
Education and academic degrees
2009 D.Sc. in Theoretical chemistry, University of Sofia
1994 Ph.D. in Organic chemistry, University of Sofia
1988 M.Sc. in Chemistry; Specialization on Chemical Physics and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Academic career
2020 – Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Sofia
2009 – Professor, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
2005 – Head of the Laboratory of Organic Catalysis, University of Sofia
2003 – 2009 Associate Professor, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
2003 – 2004 Vice dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Bulgaria
1998 – 2000 Humboldt research fellow, Technical University of Munich, Germany
1989 – 2003 Assistant Professor, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Research interests
Quantum chemical modelling of the structure, spectral features, reactivity and applications of drug delivery systems, materials, catalysts and other chemical systems:
- Active sites in zeolites and microporous materials;
- Heterogeneous catalytic systems, metal or oxide clusters, solid surfaces, etc.;
- Functional organic, bioorganic and drug molecules;
- Ultrafast dynamics of solvated species and biomolecules
- Drug delivery systems – simulations of drug immobilization and release based on quantum chemical methods;
- Modelling of active site for protein synthesis in the ribosome;
Publications
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123 scientific publications in peer review journals,
among them papers in Nature Materials (2), Angewandte Chemie (4), JASC (3), Advances in Catalysis (1), Catalysis Reviews (1), etc. - >4300 citations (Web of Science; Scopus)
- H index 30 (Web of Science, Scopus)
Teaching
“Applied Quantum Chemistry” for Bachelor students
“Organic chemistry” I for Bachelor students in Chemistry
“Organic chemistry” I for Master students in Pharmacy
“Hybrid QM/MM methods” for MSc students
“Zeolites and mesoporous materials” for MSc students
Supervision of PhD students in Theoretical and in Organic Chemistry
Professional and administrative service
Current
2020 - Representative in the ‘shadow’ Thematic Configuration ‘European Research Council’ of the Horizon Europe Programme Committee
2018 - Manager of Bulgarian National Science Fund
2018 - Chair of the Scientific Council of the National Centre of Excellence on Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies UNITe
2018 - National coordinator of 10 ERA-Net programmes
2016 - Member of the Executive Board of European Science Foundation (ESF)
2015 - Honorary member of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria
Previous
2015 - 2017 President of the Executive Board of Bulgarian National Science Fund
2016 Co-chair and Head of Bulgarian Delegation of the 15th Bulgarian-Chinese Commission for Scientific and Technological Cooperation
2011 - 2014 President of the Federation of European Zeolite Associations, FEZA
2011 - 2015 President of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria
2007 - 2019 Member of the Board of Federation of European Zeolite Associations
2007 - 2019 President of Bulgarian Zeolite Association
2007 - 2011 Vice-president of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria
2003 - 2004 Vice-dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Sofia
Memberships
Humboldt Union in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Catalytic Club, American Chemical Society, American Association for Advancement of Science
Awards and fellowships
A. von Humboldt fellowship (Technical University of Munich), 1998-2000
A. von Humboldt Alumni Award, 2009
National award “Pythagoras” of Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science for best scholar in the field of natural sciences and mathematics, 2013
National award “Pythagoras” of Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science for coordinator of successful international project, 2018
Guest professorships
University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2012
Institute of High Performance Computing A*STAR, Singapore, 2012, 2013
Expert activities
Member of the expert panel for Final Review of FP7-COST II Grant Agreement, 2014.
Expert and rapporteur for evaluation of project proposals and reviewer of projects for FP7 and H2020 program of the European Union.
Reviewer for Petroleum research fund (USA), FNRS (Belgium), PRACE (EU), etc.
Reviewer for peer-review scientific journals: Chem. Rev.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Chem. Comm.; J. Phys. Chem.; ACS Catal.; etc.
Science policy and publicity activities
Member of the team developed the document “National Strategy for Development of Research in the Republic of Bulgaria 2017-2030”, adopted by the Parliament, 2017
Chair of the expert panel of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science for new regulations of the Bulgarian Science Fund, 2012.
Member of the International scientific panel „Scientific Case for Future Provision From Petascale to Exascale Computing in Europe, 2012 – 2020”.
Organization of scientific events
Chair of the 7th international FEZA conference, Sofia 2017
Chairman or co-chairman of 15 international conferences or symposia in the fields of computational chemistry, zeolites, catalysis, organic chemistry, etc.
Member of the International Scientific Boards of 3 international congresses and conferences – FEZA conferences in 2011 and 2014, IZA conference in 2013, Europe-Asia Zeolite conference in 2013.
Chairman of the annual National conferences in Chemistry for student and PhD students (since 2001)
Short visits
China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China, 2019
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 2019
Max Plank Institute of Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, 2018
University of Cambridge, UK, 2017, 2019
University of Caen, Caen, France, 2016
University of South Carolina, USA, 2015
University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, 2014
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2014
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2014
University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 2013
University of Barcelona, Spain, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019
Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2015
Berkley National Lab, Berkley, USA, 2002
Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 1996
University of Leipzig, Germany, 1995
Projects
Project coordinator of Horizon 2020 TWINNING project (1 mln. EUR, 2016-2019, participants: Univ. Sofia, Univ. Cambridge, Univ. Barcelona, MPIP Mainz)
Chair of the Scientific Council of the National Centre of Excellence on Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies UNITe (supported by ERDF of EU with ca. 15 mln. EUR)
National coordinator of 10 ERA-Net programmes
Project leader of >10 national and bilateral projects
Work package leader of FP7 projects and national WP leader of PRACE project (Pan-European project for high performance computing)
Member of management committees of two FP7 projects and one COST action
Publications
Full list of research papers is available online at the following web sites:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5185-8002;
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Georgi_Vayssilov;
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9330-2008.
Selected publications
1. J. Grand, S. N. Talapaneni, A. Vicente, C. Fernandez, E. Dib, H. A. Aleksandrov, G. N. Vayssilov, R. Retoux, P. Boullay, J.-P. Gilson, V. Valtchev and S. Mintova
“One-pot synthesis of silanol-free nanosized MFI zeolite”
Nature Mater, 16, 1010–1015 (2017).
2. K. Khivantsev, A. Vityuk, H. A. Aleksandrov, G. N. Vayssilov, D. Blom, O. S. Alexeev, M. D. Amiridis
“Synthesis, Modeling, and Catalytic Properties of HY Zeolite Supported Rhodium Dinitrosyl Complexes”
ACS Catal. 7, 5965-5982 (2017).
3. M. Y. Mihaylov, E. Z. Ivanova, H. A. Aleksandrov, P. St. Petkov, G. N. Vayssilov, K. I. Hadjiivanov
“FTIR and density functional study of NO interaction with reduced ceria: Identification of N3− and NO2− as new intermediates in NO conversion.”
Appl. Catal. B Environmental 176, 107-119 (2015).
4. H. A. Aleksandrov, S. M. Kozlov, S. Schauermann, G. N. Vayssilov, K. M. Neyman
“How Absorbed Hydrogen Affects the Catalytic Activity of Transition Metals.”
Angewandte Chemie 53, 13371-13375 (2014).
5. G. N. Vayssilov, Y. Lykhach, A. Migani, T. Staudt, G. P. Petrova, N. Tsud, T. Skála, A. Bruix, F. Illas, K. C. Prince, V. Matolín, K. M. Neyman, J. Libuda
„Support Nanostructure Boosts Oxygen Transfer to Catalytically Active Platinum Nanoparticles”
Nature Mater. 10, 310-315 (2011).
6. G. N. Vayssilov, B. C. Gates, N. Rösch
„Oxidation of Supported Rhodium Clusters from Surface Hydroxyl Groups of the Support”
Angewandte Chemie, 42, 1391-1394 (2003).
7. K. I. Hadjiivanov, G. N. Vayssilov
„Characterization of Oxide Surfaces and Zeolites by Carbon Monoxide as an IR Probe Molecule"
Advances in Catalysis, 47, 307-511 (2002).