Dr. Daniela Doneva from the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy has been awarded the Gustav Hertz Young Scientist Award of the German Physical Society for 2024. Dr. Doneva's scientific developments are in the field of cosmology. Her research is devoted to the study of black holes and neutron stars in generalized scalar-tensor theories of gravitation. Dr. Doneva acquired the scientific and educational degree "Doctor" at the Faculty of Physics of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" under the supervision of Corr. Memb. Stoycho Yazadzhiev. Since 2012, she has been working at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for the period 2012-2015 and participated in the Margarete von Wrangell Habilitation Programme (2015-2018). In 2018, she won the Pythagoras Grand Prize [...]

The Integrated Management System (IMS) of the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, certified in accordance with the international standards for quality EN ISO 9001:2015 and environment EN ISO 14001:2015, has been implemented in order to document, analyze and evaluate the policy and actions of the management in terms of meeting the requirements of the standards of the units included in the IMS. For 20 years, the Institute has been positively evaluated for its work in audit reports, which is a guarantee of good governance and compliance with the requirements of best management practices for scientific organisations. The optimization of the quality of the work process as well as the assessment of the environmental impact of the activities at the INRNE are a guarantee [...]

The fifth joint work meeting of the General Assembly and Advisory Board of the National Scientific Infrastructure for Energy Storage and Hydrogen Energy (NSI ESHER) project was held on 19 and 20 June at IEES-BAS. The meeting was attended by more than 60 scientists from a total of 13 organisations. On the first day, the development of the project and the main achievements so far were reported. A summary overview of the achieved results was presented by the project coordinator and Director of IEES-BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva. Module 1 "Integrated Laboratories" - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eli Grigorova from IGIC-BAS; Module 2 "Infrastructure Platforms for High Technology Developments" - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Blagoy Burdin and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Borislav Abrashev, IEES-BAS; and Module 3 [...]

Declaration on the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria to the European Battery Alliance (EBA250) was signed on 24 April 2023 in Sofia TechPark. The document was signed by Marcin Wasilewski, Chief Executive Officer of EIT InnoEnergy for Central Europe and Bogdan Bogdanov, Executive Director of InvestBulgaria Agency (IBA). IBA will be the official representative of our country in the European Battery Alliance. The ceremony was attended by President Rumen Radev, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel, Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Pekanov, Minister of Innovation and Growth Alexander Pulev, Minister of Economy and Industry Nikola Stoyanov, Minister of Energy Rossen Hristov, representatives of business, science and education.  Among the invitees were also Corr. Mem. Evelina Slavcheva, Director of the Institute [...]

Information on the development of CoC "HITMOBIL" was presented at a press conference The registration of the first hydrogen electric car in Bulgaria is already a fact and its owner is IEES-BAS.  The Hyundai Nexo electric vehicle has been purchased under a public procurement procedure for the supply and warranty support of an electric vehicle with hydrogen fuel cells required for the establishment/upgrading of the research infrastructure of Laboratory 5: "HIT for Energy Storage and Electromobility" - part of the HITMOBIL Centre of Competence project. It was presented during the interim press conference of the project held on 30 March 2023. Powering the Hyundai Nexo is an electric motor with 120 kW of power and a maximum torque of 395 Nm. Power for driving, as [...]