Associate Professor Dr. Plamen Nikolov, Director of the “Academician Evgeni Budevski” Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems (IEES-BAS) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, has been elected as the 33rd member of the prestigious international scientific Alpha-Beta Society. The news was announced on 15 September during this year’s European Lead Battery Conference (ELBC’2026) in Vienna. Membership of the Alpha-Beta Society is strictly limited and is expanded by only one new member per year. Members of the society are internationally recognised scientists and specialists who have made an exceptional contribution to the development of science and technology relating to lead-acid batteries. With the election of Assoc. Prof. Nikolov, the number of representatives of the Bulgarian school of electrochemistry of lead-acid batteries in the society has risen [...]

The tenth edition of the international conference “Sofia Electrochemical Days” – SED’2026 – took place from 8 to 12 September at the Creativity House of BAS, Varna. The forum brought together 75 participants from seven countries - Bulgaria, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Poland and the Czech Republic - representing scientific organisations, universities and the business sector. The “Sofia Electrochemical Days” conferences, which have been held biennially since 1996, are organised by the “Academician Evgeni Budevski” Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems – BAS. The scientific programme of SED’2026 included 7 plenary, 10 invited and 13 regular oral presentations as well as 35 poster presentations. The latest scientific findings were presented in the fields of modern batteries and supercapacitors, the production, storage and conversion of hydrogen, [...]

The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member Evelina Slavcheva, together with representatives of the Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems (IEES-BAS) and the HITMOBIL Center до Competence she heads, participated as partners in the eleventh edition of the FISSION’26 International Student Science Fair. The event took place on April 18 at the American College of Sofia. In her welcome address to the participants, Corr. Memb. Slavcheva expressed satisfaction that the forum was proof of young people’s growing interest in science, which “knows no boundaries, neither between countries nor between scientific fields.” Corr. Memb. Slavcheva encouraged the students and their mentors with the words: “Believe that science is a calling. Believe that it is the freest realm of human activity where the scope [...]