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Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering |
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Prof. Slavka S. Tcholakova, Ph.D. (Head of the department) |
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| Phone: +359 2 8161 698Curriculum Vitae:
Slavka Tcholakova received M.Sc. in Chemistry (1996), Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (2004), Assistant Professor (2006), Associate Professor (2009), Professor (2013) in the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria. She is Head of the Department since January 2015. She has been a visiting researcher in the Research Center Paul Pascal, CNRS, Bordeaux, France (1997). Her research interests include: formation and stability of emulsions; rheology of foams and emulsions; protein adsorption in relation to emulsion stability; foam stability in the presence of antifoams; in-vitro models for digestion and bioavailability of hydrophobic molecules and the respective experimental methods. So far, she has published 121 research and review articles, cited over 4000 times in the scientific literature (h-index = 36). She has been leading 50 projects and participating in 30 projects with international companies (BASF, Unilever, Saint Gobain, Wacker, Lubrizol, PepsiCo, Altana, BYK Chemie, Productolysa, etc.). She has been a supervisor and co-supervisor of 14 completed PhD Theses, and 5 other Theses are under preparation. She was the recipient of the award "Best Young Scientist" for 2006 of the Sofia University Foundation "St. Kliment Ohridski". She bears the National award "Pythagoras" (2018) for high scientific achievements in natural sciences.