Leandar Litov - Biography#

Prof. Leandar Litov graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” in 1980, majoring in Nuclear and Particle Physics. He worked for 10 years at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) - Dubna. In 1990 he returned to Sofia University, where he has since lectured on quantum and particle physics. He established and has been supervising the Master Degree program "Nuclear and Particle Physics" and the Bachelor program "Medical Physics", and served as Head of the Atomic Physics Department (2007 - 2012).

Prof. L. Litov is an outstanding scientist with excellent results in the field of experimental and theoretical particle physics, but also in high performance computing, and computational and theoretical biophysics. He has conducted investigations at the Serpukhov accelerator and - since 1992 - at the accelerator complex at CERN. He took part in the investigations performed by the NA48, NA49 and NA62 Collaborations and is a founding member of the CMS collaboration as well as Team Leader of the Sofia University team involved in the experiments at LHC. He is author and co-author of more than 1200 scientific publications cited more than 75000 times, with a h-index of 123 (INSPIRE) and 105 (Scopus). Prof. Litov has extensive experience in working in big international collaborations and at international organizations – 11 years at JINR Dubna and more than 30 years at CERN. He has been a member of different committees, scientific councils and managing bodies, among them CERN Council, CERN Financial Committee, and the European Particle Physics Strategy Group, leading large-scale international projects as Chair of the CMS-RPC Institution Board, and Vice-Chair of the CMS Collaboration Board.

L. Litov is a founding member of the Bulgarian Consortium for Genetics, Proteomics and Medicine, aiming at knowledge and technology transfer from Natural Sciences to Life Sciences and a Co-Founder of the Bulgarian National Center for Supercomputing Applications. As initiator of the project for Bulgarian Ion Therapy Center, L. Litov is one of the most active members of the international team working on establishing the South-East European Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST), the main goal of which is the construction of a pan-European research infrastructure for ion therapy and biomedical research. He chairs the Board of the Association for support of SEEIIST and was recently elected Chair of the SEEIIST Steering Committee.