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Tsvetanka Babeva

Prof. Dr. Tsvetanka Babeva

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Tsvetanka Babeva is currently Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Optical Materials and Technology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. She received her M.S. in physics, major applied optics at Sofia State University in 1994 and PhD in Physics of condensed matter at Central Laboratory of Photoprocesses, Bulgarian Academy of Science in 2003. In 2007 she was awarded Arnold F. Graves fellowship and spent 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher in Centre of Industrial and Engineering Optics at Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University of Dublin), Ireland. Her professional experience includes 25 years as a researcher, supervision of 3 PhD, team leading of 8 scientific and infrastructural projects and participation as a team member of more than 20 projects. She has co-authored about 90 papers (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0961-7499), H-index 12 and has more than 100 participations in national and international conferences. Her present research is devoted to optical characterization of thin films, wet method of films deposition and developing of porous materials and photonic structures for optical sensing applications.

Research Keywords & Expertise

Optics
Porous Materials
Sensors
Thin Films
Sol-Gel Coating

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Optics
Thin Films
Sensors
Sol-Gel Coating

Short Biography

Tsvetanka Babeva is currently Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Optical Materials and Technology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. She received her M.S. in physics, major applied optics at Sofia State University in 1994 and PhD in Physics of condensed matter at Central Laboratory of Photoprocesses, Bulgarian Academy of Science in 2003. In 2007 she was awarded Arnold F. Graves fellowship and spent 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher in Centre of Industrial and Engineering Optics at Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University of Dublin), Ireland. Her professional experience includes 25 years as a researcher, supervision of 3 PhD, team leading of 8 scientific and infrastructural projects and participation as a team member of more than 20 projects. She has co-authored about 90 papers (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0961-7499), H-index 12 and has more than 100 participations in national and international conferences. Her present research is devoted to optical characterization of thin films, wet method of films deposition and developing of porous materials and photonic structures for optical sensing applications.