Nikolai Denkov#
| Membership Number: | 4992 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BULGARIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lcpe.uni-sofia.bg/n_d_denkov_cv.xhtml |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1118-7635 |
| Linkedin: | https://bg.linkedin.com/in/nikolai-denkov-05a1191b |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Head, Laboratory of Active Formulations and Materials, Sofia University
- 2017 (January-May): Minister of education and science of Bulgaria
- 2014 - 2016 Deputy minister of education and science of Bulgaria
- 2008 - 2015 Head of Department of Chemical Engineering, Sofia University
- 2008 - present: Professor, Sofia University, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
- 2004 - 2005 Lead Scientist, Unilever R&D Center, Edgewater, New Jersey, USA (sabbatical leave)
- 1998 - 2008 Associate Professor, Sofia University, Faculty of Chemistry
- 1997 - 1998 Senior Researcher, Rhone Poulenc, Saint Fons, France (sabbatical leave)
- 1996 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Sofia University
- 1994 - 1995 Researcher, Nagayama Protein Array Project, Japanese Research & Development Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan
Fields of Scholarship
- Surface forces and stability of liquid films
- Mechanisms of cleaning, detergency
- Kinetics and mechanisms of oil (fragrance, drug) solubilization in micellar solutions
- Surfactant aggregation, adsorption and applications
- Formation and stability of emulsions
- Foam generation, rheology, and stability
- Capillary phenomena (capillary forces, capillary bridges)
- Biophysics of oil/fat digestion
- 2D and 3D-colloid crystals (methods for fabrication and optical properties)
- Physical Chemistry of Disperse Systems and Surfactants
- Antifoam effect of oils and oil-solid mixtures
Honours and Awards
- International
- 2019 Received Solvay Prize by the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS)
- 2019 Invited member of the Physical Sciences Working Group of European Space Agency (ESA)
- 2018 Invited Chair of Panel of PE5 "Synthetic Chemistry and Materials" (ERC) for evaluation of ERC Consolidator Grants 2019
- 2018 Elected member of the Council of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS)
- 2010 The article by Denkov et al. "Mechanism of formation of two-dimensional crystals from latex particles on substrates", Langmuir (1992) 3183 ranked under number 20 in the list of "25 Most-Cited Articles Published in Langmuir" for all years.
- National
- 2018 Elected corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Granted with the big award for high scientific achievements of Sofia University
- 2013 Granted with Medal of Honor with blue ribbon by Sofia University for academic achievements.
- 2010 Granted by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science with the highest National award "Pythagoras" for scientific achievements
