Ch. Assist. Prof. Detelina Peneva Ilieva PhD

Born on 03.07.1969 in the town of Tervel. She obtained her Master's degree in Physics at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Department of "Optics and Spectroscopy" in 1993. Her thesis was on the topic "Optogalvanic effect of Ar ions and Ne atoms in a glow discharge in a hollow cathode" and was done at the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Sofia.

From 1994 to 1998 she was a metrologist in the Department of "Gas Analytical Measurements" and the Department of "Optical Measurements" at the National Center for Metrology (NCM), Sofia. Work experience: state inspections; approval of types and calibration of gas analytical, optical and photoradiometric measuring instruments, according to the requirements of the Bulgarian State Standards (BDS); checks and expert conclusions on the conditions of the standard samples used in various state enterprises and institutions.

From 2004 to 2006 (inclusive) she was a doctoral student in the group “Optical Recording of Information" at the Central Laboratory for Optical Storage and Processing Information (CLOSPI), BAS, Sofia. In 2005 she was a specialist at Risoe National Laboratory, Optics and Plasma Research Department, Roskilde, Denmark under the scientific program Short Term Scientific Mission, COST Action P8, Materials and Systems for Optical Data Storage and Processing. In 2008 she received a doctoral degree in physics from BAS. The topic of the dissertation work was “Polarization optical recording in photoanisotropic polymers". Since 2009 she has been appointed as a senior researcher at the CLOSPI, BAS, Sofia.

Since 2010 she has been a Chief Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Biophysics of MU - Varna.