I am an associate professor in the Telecommunications Department of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (Sofia, Bulgaria).
I obtained my PhD degree in Informatics and Applied Mathematics in 1999.

• digital preservation of mediæval manuscripts
• text encoding
• applications of information technologies to the Humanities
• education in information technologies for Humanities' students

• Award of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for young researchers for original achievements in the computer representation of mediæval Slavonic texts (1998)

• Invited lecturer at the UNESCO training for library specialists from Croatia (Pula, 2000) and Summer University program of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (1996, 1997).
• Academic director of three international summer schools (1998, 1999, 2002).

• Co-ordinator of three national and three international projects.
• Author of more than 30 publications.
• Invited presentations for conferences and workshops held in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, UK, USA, Yugoslavia (1993-2003).

• Member of the Expert Committee on Information Technologies at the National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria (since 2003).
• Representative of Bulgaria at the Central European Initiative (CEI) for the information society trend (since 2003).
• Consultant of the Electronic publishing development program, OSI--Budapest (2000-2001).
• Member of the expert committee Information and Documentation of the Bulgarian Institute for Standardisation (since 1998).
• Member of the Council of the Department of Public Administration, New Bulgarian University (1992-1998).