Personal:
Date of Birth: March 19, 1983
Place of Birth: Shoumen, Bulgaria
Career:
2005 B. Sc., Chemistry, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
2006 M.Sc., Computational Chemistry, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
2010 PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sofia, Bulgaria/ Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
Supervisors: Dr. A. Tadjer, Prof. N. Gospodinova
2011 Post-doc at Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Teaching:
Seminars in Structure of Matter, Molecular Design and Physical Chemistry - Bachelor courses at the University of Sofia
Grants&Awards:
2006 Short-term DAAD research grant for PhD students and young scientists
Host institution: Germany - The Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
2007 COST - P12, Short-term scientific mission
Host Institution: France - ICSI, Mulhouse
2007 Three years French Government Scholarship for joint supervision of a thesis between University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and Université de Haute-Alsace (France)
2009 Award for the best scientific project realized in Faculty of Chemistry, University of Sofia
Projects:
Project №MUH–1401/2004: “Model study on the Li-intercalation mechanism in Li-batteries anode materials”
Project №VUH–202/2006 of the Bulgarian National Science Fund: “Polyaniline as component of a variety of modern nanomaterials – challenges for theory and experiment”
Project №SU–118/2006: “Systematic study of ВС, BNC and BCN clusters as building blocks of ВС and BCN nanotubes”
Project №SU–43/2007: “Modification of the energy spectrum and the electronic structure of carbon nanotubes by controlled insertion of defects and/or functionalization”
Project №SU–32/2008: “Ab Initio (DFT) study of metal-organic spin hybrid structures with potential application for information storage”
Project №UNION–DO-02-82/2008 of the Bulgarian National Science Fund: “National centre for advanced materials”
Project №Ideas–DO-02-256/2008 of the Bulgarian National Science Fund: “Reversible nanotransporters across fluid interfaces”
Project №MADARA–DO-02-52/2008 of the Bulgarian National Science Fund: “Computer system for advanced studies in molecular design, new materials and nanotechnology”
Project №IRC-CoSIM–DO-02-136/2008 of the Bulgarian National Science Fund: “Computational Sciences in the Microworld”
Project № SU – 185/2009: “Theoretical identification of the conducting polyaniline spin states (PANI) – polarons-bipolaron dualism”
Project Hydropol 2010-2012 of AMS department of the Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg : “L’élaboration des polymères intelligents dans milieux aqueux”/”The development of inteligent polymers in aqueous medium”
Research interest:
Conducting polymers, molecular magnets, pure carbon and boron-doped nanotubes
Publications:
1. Unprecedented Route to Ordered Polyaniline: Direct Synthesis of Highly-Crystalline Fibrillar Films with Strong pi-pi Stacking Alignment
N. Gospodinova, D. A. Ivanov, D. V. Anokhin, I. Mihai, L. Vidal, S. Brun, J. Romanova, A. Tadjer
Macromolecular Rapid Communications 30 (2009) 29-33
2. Influence of the Level of Protonation on the Geometry and the Electronic Structure of Emeraldine Oligomers
J. Petrova, J. Romanova, G. Madjarova, A. Ivanova, A. Tadjer
Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics 20 (2009) 219-251
3. Polyaniline-Water Interactions: a Theoretical Investigation with the Polarisable Continuum Model
J. Romanova, J. Petrova, A. Tadjer, N. Gospodinova
Synthetic Metals 160 (2010) 1050-1054
4. Theoretical Study on the Emeraldine Salt - Impact of the Computational Protocol
J. Romanova, J. Petrova, A. Ivanova, A. Tadjer, N. Gospodinova
Journal of Molecular Structure - THEOCHEM 954 (2010) 36-44
5. Dopant and Solvents Polarity Effect on the Electronic Structure of the Emeraldine Salt
J. Romanova, G. Мadjarova, A. Tadjer, N. Gospodinova
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (2010) DOI: 10.1002/qua.22703
6. Theoretical Study on the Structural Aspects of Cu(II) Hybrid-spin Complexes
T. Miteva, J. Romanova, A. Ivanova, A. Tadjer, M. Baumgarten
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2010) 379-390
7. An In-depth Theoretical Approach to the Design of Hybrid-Spin Systems
J. Romanova, T. Miteva, A. Ivanova, A. Tadjer, M. Baumgarten
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 9545–9555
8. Method of preparing polyaniline films and highly self-oriented films
N. Gospodinova, S. Dorey, D. Anokhin, D. Ivanov, J. Romanova, H. Kolev
WO/2009/115714 issued 09.2009
Contact information:
Email: juliq_romanova@abv.bg
Address : Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor
66, rue de Luxembourg, B.P.144, L-4002
Esch-sur-Alzette
Tel: 00352 424 991 497
Fax: 00352 424 991 497


