Name: Plamen Nikolov Penchev

Marital Status: Divorced. One son.

Nationality: Bulgaria

Academic Status:

Oct 2016 - present  Professor in Analytical Chemistry (Instrumental Methods for Analysis), Chemistry Department, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Sep 2016   Dr.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry

Oct 2010 - Oct 2016  Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry (Instrumental Methods for Analysis), Chemistry Department, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2010 - 2011    Head of Chemistry Section at Union of Scientist - Plovdiv, Bulgaria, resigned 2011 because the position is void as the Union is itself.

2010     Informal Head of Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory at Center for New Materials in Chemistry and Physics, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Jun  2006 - 2010  Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry (Instrumental Methods for Analysis), Chemistry Department, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Sep 2001 – Jan 2006  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, ASU, Arizona, U.S.A

1998    Ph. D. in Chemistry (at National Level)

1995 - 2001  Assistant Professor in Computer Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1989 - 1995  Research Spectroscopist, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1989  M.Sci. degree in Chemistry from Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1984 - 1989  Attended Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

1982 - 1984  Attended High Institute of Chemical Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria

1977 – 1980 Attended National Mathematical School, Sofia, Bulgaria

Foreign Languages: English, Russian, German

Scholarships:

Feb, 1997 - May, 1997 TEMPUS Scholarship, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Oct, 1995 - Feb, 1996 Scholarship from Austrian Ministry of Science and Education, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Practical Experience: Infrared Spectroscopy, UV/Vis Spectroscopy, ICP - Emission Spectroscopy, Computer Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Application of Statistics in Chemistry, Artificial Neural Networks. For a list of scientific papers see this page.

Programming Languages: Pascal (Delphi), C⁺⁺.

References:

Prof. Dr. M. E. Munk, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287. Tel: (602) 965-4430; Fax: (602) 965-2747. W-mail: mem@asu.edu

Prof. Dr. Kurt Varmuza, Laboratory for Chemometrics, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/166, A-1060 Vienna, Austria.
Tel: +43-1-58801-16060; Fax: +43-1-58801-16091. E-mail: kvarmuza@email.tuwien.ac.at

Prof. Dr. H. F. Schaefer III, Center for Computational Chemistry, 1004 Cedar St., The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2556.
Tel: (706) 542-2067 Fax: 0406. E-mail: hfs@uga.edu