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Prof. Dr. Stoyan Gutzov

Phone: 02 / 8161 281

E-mail: sgutzov@chem.uni-sofia.bg

 

Dates (from – to) 2015 – Professor of Physical Chemistry
Name and address of employer

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski

Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, 1 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

Type of business or sector University / R&D
Occupation or position held 2016 – Head of Department of physical chemistry
Teaching activities PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I and II part; CERAMIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS

 

Еducation and training  
• Dates (from – to) 1991 - 1995
• Name and type of organization Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Chemistry

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

PhD Degree in physical chemistry & materials science; PhD Thesis ”Preparation, structure and properties of doped tin and zirconium oxides”
• Title of qualification awarded 1996 PhD in Chemistry

 

Social skills

and competences

 

Specializations abroad:

1992-1993: OAAD Grant, Univesity of Vienna, Austria

1994-1995: DAAD University of Cologne, Germany

1998-2000 Roman Herzog Grant (AvH Foundation) University of Würzburg, Germany

2000-2001 Visiting Professor, FH Münster, Germany

2002-2003 Visiting Scientist, TU Berlin, Germany

2006-2007 Visiting professor, TU Braunschweig, Germany

 

Organisational skills

Head of Laboratory of Functional Optical Materials, (2006 - 2012); and Functional colloids and surfaces (2012 – 2016). Supervisor of research projects (NSFB, FP7).

Participation in international (FP6, FP7) projects as a group leader.

Projects: BG05M2OP001-1.001-0008-С01 ; NFSB DH09/9/2016; FP7 EFFiHEAT SME-2011-1 No 286814; NFSB DTK 0226 / 2009; NSFB BYX 08 / 2005 and other projects

 

scientific skills

and competences

optical materials. Spectroscopy. Sol-gel. Aerogels. Physical Chemistry. Solid state

 

Scientific Publications

 

>50 publications, >50 scientific conferences, >500 citations in literature; 2 patents (BG),

H-index = 13 (SCOPUS)

3 PhD students, 3 MSc students, 4BSc Students

SCOPUS Author ID: 6602183864

 

5 representative new publications

 

D. Shandurkov, N. Danchova, T. Spassov, V. Petrov, R. Tsekov, S. Gutzov, Silica gels doped with gold nanoparticles: preparation, structure and optical properties, Gels 2023,9(8), 663; https://doi.org/10.3390/gels9080663.

S. Gutzov, D. Shandurkov, N. Danchova, V. Petrov, T. Spassov, Hybrid composites based on aerogels: preparation, structure and tunable luminescence, J. Luminescence, 251 (2022) 119171.

V. Petrov, N. Danchova, S. Gutzov, Temperature dependent optical spectroscopy: A study of holmium diphenanthroline nitrate in DMF, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 227 (2020), DOI 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117527.

T. Zahariev, D. Shandurkov, S. Gutzov, N. Trendafilova, D. Enseling, T. Jüstel, I. Georgieva, Phenanthroline chromophore as efficient antenna for Tb3+ green luminescence: A theoretical study, Dyes and Pigments 185 (2021) 108890.

D. Shandurkov, P. Ignatov, I. Spassova, S. Gutzov, Spectral and Texture Properties of Hydrophobic Aerogel Powders Obtained from Room Temperature Drying, Molecules 26 (2021) 1796 https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26061796