CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Name, title:

Iovka Dragieva

Professor, DSc., Ph.D., Chemist

 

 

Affiliation and Official Address:

Head of Nanoscale Materials Division

Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems - IEES

(former Central Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources – CLEPS)

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Acad Georgi Bonchev St., Block 10, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria

Tel.: +3592 718 647; +3592 979 2783 / Fax: +3592 722544 / e-mail: iovka@cleps.bas.bg

 

Education (dates, degrees, universities):

1967, chemist, MS, State Univ. of Sofia, Chem. Faculty

1974, PhD, Univ. Chem. Technology and Metallurgy

1993, DrSc, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

 

Career/Employment (dates, positions, employers):

1967-1968, chemist, Inst. Phys. Chem., Bulgarian Ac. Sci.

1968-1968, chemist - reviewer for Chemical Industry of Bulgaria

1970-1973, PhD student at University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCHM)

1974-1976, researcher at UCHM

1977, researcher at Technical University, Depart. Metal Science

1981, Assoc. Prof. Tech. Univ. of Sofia

1993, Assoc. Prof.  CLEPS – BAS

1999, Professor, IEES ( CLEPS) at BAS

2003, Head of Nanoscale Materials Department

 

Specialization:

One of the leading scientists in the field of nanoscale particles production by means of chemical processes  in aqua solutions and metal particles applications with more than 120 scientific articles and 28 patents (USA, Japan, BRD, The Nederland, Bulgaria incl. 2 patents for materials of dentistry)

(i) main field:  original technological processes and reactors for production of metal clusters nanoparticles , nanowires, nanoscale  hydrogen containers  and nanotubes;

(ii) other fields: magnetic properties and applications of magnetic materials, materials for electronic applications, metallic materials containing boron, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen, application of nanoscale materials as electrodes in Li-batteries, as catalysts for red/oxy processes, for electrolytic water splitting, etc.;

(iii) current research interest: the art of chemical bond formation in nanoscale materials, the importance of the  bond strength  value of dimers or of diatomic molecules.

 

Honours, Awards, Fellowships, Membership of Professional Societies:

National and International Affiliations and Positions:

1999, Member of the National Expert Council on Nanotechnologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;

            Leader of the Thematic Group “Nanometrology and Applications”, National Center of Nanotechnology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;

            Co-ordinator of two NSF-USA/BAS – Bulgaria joint  projects –INT-9727193 and INT-0124080 on nanoscale particle production

2000, National Contact Point of the COST Action 523

2002, Leader-Invest., Proposal Acronym PROMETHEAS, ICA2-CT-2002-1001 FP5 RTD

2002-2006, National Contact Person of Bulgaria for Priority 3 and Member of the NMP Programme Committee of EC for Bulgaria

2003, President of the National Expert Council on Nanotechnologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Memberships:

- Member of  the American Chemical Society

- Member of IEEE

 

Publications:

(a) Number of papers in refereed journals: over 120 and 28 patents (USA, Japan, BRD, The Netherlands, Bulgaria incl. 2 patents for materials of dentistry)

(b) Number of communications to scientific meetings:

            Nanotechnology in the Candidate Countries, June 2003; March 2004;

            “Nanoscale Materials Production, Properties and Applications”, ISSE (2004) (151)

(c) Books:

(c.1) Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, issue 1, 2001;  Proceeding of the Second Workshop Nanostructured Materials Application and Innovation Transfer, 23-24 November 2000, Sofia, Bulgaria, Edited by E. Balabanova and I. Dragieva, ISBN 954-580- 097-6, Heron Press Ltd., 160 pages.

(c.2) Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, issue 2, 2002;  Proceeding of the Third Workshop Nanostructured Materials Application and Innovation Transfer, November 30 – December 1, 2001, Sofia, Bulgaria, Edited by E. Balabanova and I. Dragieva, ISBN 954-580- 121-2, Heron Press Ltd., 171 pages.

(c.3) Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, issue 3, 2003;  Proceeding of the Forth Workshop Nanostructured Materials Application and Innovation Transfer, 17 – 19 October, 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria, Edited by E. Balabanova and I. Dragieva, ISBN 954-580-139-5, Heron Press Ltd., 254 pages.

(c.4) Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, issue 4, 2004;  Proceeding of the Fifth Workshop Nanostructured Materials Application and Innovation Transfer, 17 – 18 November, 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, Edited by E. Balabanova and I. Dragieva, ISBN 954-580-160-3, Heron Press Ltd., 318 pages.

 

Selected recent publications:

(1) Nanostructured Materials 12 (1999) 267

(2) Nanostructured Materials 12 (1999) 613

(3) NATO ARW "Nano-Crystalline and Thin Film Magnetic Oxides", Eds. I. Nedkov, M. Ausloos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Series 3. High Tech. 72 (1999) 165

(4) NATO ARW "Nano-Crystalline and Thin Film Magnetic Oxides", Eds. I. Nedkov, M. Ausloos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Series 3. High Tech. 72 (1999) 301

(5) Cluster and Nanostructure Interfaces, 2000, Eds. P. Jena, S.N .Khanna, B.K. Rao, World Scientific Publ., Richmond Virginia, USA, 25-28 October 1999, ISBN – 981-02-4219-0, 56

(6) Phys. Chem. Glasses, 41/5 (2000) 264

(7) Materials for Lithium- Ion Batteries (Eds. C. Julien and Z. Stoynov), NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, High Technology, 85 (2000) 619

(8) Oxidation Communications , 24/2 (2001) 161

(9) Scripta Mater. 44 (2001) 2187

(10) Materials for Information Technology in the New Millenium (Proceedings of the 11th International School on Condensed Matter Physics (ISCMP 11), Eds. J.M. Marshall et al.), Bookcraft, Bath (2001) 106

(11) NATO-ASI, Intercalation Compounds for Energy Storage, Eds. C. Julien, J.P. Pereira-Ramos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Series II:Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 61 (2002) 433

(12) NATO-ASI, Intercalation Compounds for Energy Storage, Eds. C. Julien, J.P., Pereira- Ramos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 61 (2002) 623

(13) Monatshefte fuer Chemie (Chemical Monthly), 133 (2002) 807

(14) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124/10 (2002) 2305

(15) I. Dragieva and A. Proykova, “The Art of Chemical Bond Creation”, Joint COST-Action Workgroup Meeting on Individual and Assembled Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots, Leuven, Belgium, 25-27 April, 2002

(16) I. Dragieva, A. Proykova and K.J. Klabunde, ”The Art of Chemical Bond Creation in Nanoscale Materials”, Conference in Orlando, USA, 17 June 2002

(17) A. Proykova, S. Pisov, I. Dragieva, “Self-Organization of Nanosized Clusters: a Spontaneous Ordering of Matter", ISSPIC11, Starsburg, France, September 2002

(18) I. Dragieva and A. Proykova, “Bond Strengths of Diatomic Molecules in Nanoscale Materials”, Workshop COST523: Nanomaterials, Sevilla, Spain, 2-7 Oct. 2002

(19) A. Proykova, S. Pisov and I. Dragieva, “Density Functional theory and its applications in nanopowders" (invited talk and poster), 4th Workshop on Nanomaterials, Sofia, 18-20 October 2002

(20) S. Stoeva, K.J. Klabunde, C.M. Sorensen, and I. Dragieva, “Gram-Scale Synthesis of Monodisperse Gold Colloids by the Solvated Metal Atom Dispersion Method and Digestive Ripening and Their Organization into Two- and Three-Dimensional Structures”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124 (2002) 2305

(21) I. Dragieva and A. Proykova, “Bond Strengths in Diatomic Molecules of Nanoscale Materials”, In: Nanoscience & Nanotechnology: Nanostructured Materials, Application and Innovation Transfer (eds. E. Balabanova and I. Dragieva), Heron Press Science Series, Sofia, 3 (2003): 13-16 [(ISBN 954-580-139-5)].

(22) A. Proykova, S. Pisov, I. Dragieva, J. Chelikowsky, “DFT Calculations of Optimized Structures of Some Coordination Compounds”, In: Nanoscience & Nanotechnology: Nanostructured Materials, Application and Innovation Transfer (Eds. E. Balabanova and I. Dragieva), Heron Press Science Series, Sofia, 3 (2003) 17; [ISBN 9.54-580-139-5].

(23) K. Alexandrova, I. Markova, I. Dragieva and K.J. Klabunde, “NiB Nanowires and Nanoparticles Produced by Borohydride Reeduction in Water Solurtions”, 11th International Conference on Surface and Colloid Science, Parana, Brazil, 15-19 September 2003

(24) I. Dragieva, Ch. Deleva, M. Mladenov, I. Markova–Deneva, "Self-Organization of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Inclusion of Hydrogen by Borohydride Reduction", Monatshefte fuer Chemie, 133 (2002) 808

(25) K. Alexandrova, L. Slavov, I. Markova-Deneva, M. Stoycheva, I. Dragieva, “Electron microscopic investigations of gold and aluminum nanowires”, Proc. of the 3th Workshop Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva), 30 November - 1 December 2001, Sofia, Bulgaria, Heron Press (2002) 83

(26) Z. Cherkezova-Zeleva, G. Ivanova, D. Paneva, I. Mitov, M. Stoicheva, I. Dragieva, K. Klabunde, "Moessbauer, X-ray and TEM\SAED comparative investigations of FexByHz(O) nanoparticles prepared by borohidride reduction", Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva), Sofia, Bulgaria,  Heron Press, 1 (2002)

(27) K. Alexandrova, I. Markova-Deneva, I. Dragieva, “IR spectroscopy study of copper nanoparticles produced by borohydride reduction”, Meetings in Physics at University of Sofia, Heron Press, 3 (2002) 55

(28) K. Alexandrova, I. Markova-Deneva, G. Ivanova, I. Dragieva, “IR spectroscopy investigation of metal amorphous nanoparticles”, Journal of the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, XXXVII, 4 (2002) 19

(29) K. Alexandrova, I. Markova-Deneva, S. Vassilev, I. Dragieva, “Synthesis and investigations of NixByHz nanoparticles, obtained from sulphate and chloride solutions”, Proc. of the 4th Workshop Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva), 17-19 October 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria, Heron Press (2003) 67

(30) M. Mladenov, P. Zlatilova, K. Alexandrova, I. Markova-Deneva, I. Dragieva, “Nanoscale hydrogen container in Li-ion battery”, Proc. of the 4th Workshop Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva), 17-19 October 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria, Heron Press (2003) 223

(31) I. Dragieva, I. Markova-Deneva, M. Mladenov, K. Alexandrova, P. Zlatilova, S. Stoeva, P. Stoimenov, K. J. Klabunde, “Nanoparticles produced by borohydride reduction and their applications in portable energy sources”, 6th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, 16 - 21 June 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA.

(32) K. Alexandrova, I. Markova-Deneva, M. Popova, V. Mavrodinova, M. Stoycheva, A. Gigova, I. Dragieva, “Mechanism of nucleation and characterization of NiB/SiO2 nanoparticles and nanowires”, Journal of the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, XXXVIII, 4 (2003) 1031

(33) E. Slavcheva, V. Nikolova, E. Lefterova, P. Iliev, G. Ivanova, I. Dragieva, “Core/shell electrocatalysts fro water splitting produced by  borohydride method", Proc. of the 5th Workshop Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva), 17–18 November 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, Heron Press (2004) 262

(34) I. Dragieva and K. Alexandrova, “Hydrogen - containing nanoparticles, nanowires and nanotubes: production and applications”, International Conference SPACE`2003, 15 – 19 September 2003, Moscow – Kaluga, Russia, 120

(35) I. Dragieva, K. Alexandrova, "Nanoscale materials –production, properties and applications", Proceedings of the IEEE International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology, 27th ISSE 2004, volume 24, B. A123, 540

(36) K. Alexandrova, I. Markova-Deneva, A. Gigova, I. Dragieva, “Morphology of NiB nanoparticles and nanowires produced by borohydride reduction”, Proc. of the 5th Workshop Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva), 17–18 November 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, Heron Press (2004) 52

(37) E. Slavcheva , V. Nikolova, T. Petkova, E. Lefterova, I. Dragieva, T. Vitanov, E. Budevski, "Electrocatalytic activity of Pt and PtCo deposited on Ebonex by BH reduction", Electrochimica Acta (2005) accepted for publication.