The Vice-President of BAS Corr. Memb. Evdokia Pasheva presented awards to young scientists who won a competition for the best publication in the field of natural sciences, mathematics, humanities, and social sciences. The award ceremony took place today in the “Acad. Ivan E. Geshov” Hall at BAS.
I would like to thank Acad. Krassimir Atanassov who established this award, Vice-President of BAS Corresponding Member Evdokia Pasheva said, adding that the aim of the award was to encourage young people to engage in science and, of course, she pointed out, the award was an assessment of their work that the commission highly valued.
Every year, the awards bear the names of distinguished scientists from BAS on the occasion of their anniversaries, Corr. Memb. Pasheva said. For 2025, the award for natural and mathematical sciences is named after Acad. Gury Marchuk, a foreign member of BAS, in connection with the 100th anniversary of his birth. For the humanities and social sciences, the awards are named after Acad. Nikolay Kaufman on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
The jury in this year’s competition awarded six scientific projects of young researchers from BAS and higher education institutions in the country. The awards are given for scientific work by a young scientist, either independently or in collaboration with other young scientists.
Penio Lebamovski from the Institute of Robotics of BAS won first prize in the competition for best article in the field of natural sciences and mathematics. His field of scientific research is 3-D modeling, virtual reality, animation, and the processing and analysis of electrocardiological data. The jury awarded two second prizes – to Mariana Velikova from the Medical University of Pleven who is an assistant in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Social Pharmacy with the topic “Gastrointestinal diseases associated with increased acidity and treatment strategies,” and to Mima Mavrodieva from the University of Food Technologies – Plovdiv who was engaged in comparative research on yeasts isolated from different varieties and regions.
In the field of humanities and social sciences, the first prize was awarded to Aleksandar Petrov from Veliko Tarnovo University who worked in the field of translation theory – Russian slang vocabulary in fiction. The second prize went to Iveta Chelebieva and Natasha Noeva from the Institute of Art Studies of BAS. Iveta Chelebieva is a doctoral student in the “New Bulgarian Art” research group, and the topic of her dissertation is “Wall-monumental arts in the exterior of public buildings in Sofia in the 70s and 80s of 20th century”. Sen. Asst. Prof. Natasha Noeva studies gallery work in Bulgaria in the 50s of 20th century through archival documents and unpublished sources.
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