Scientific Council

• Assoc. Prof. Kostadin Yossifov, PhD - chairman

• Assoc. Prof. Petar Zlatev - vice chairman

• Assoc. Prof. Rumen Kishev, PhD - scientific secretary

• Assoc. Prof. Milena Lefterova, PhD - technical secretary

• Assoc. Prof. Evgeni Milanov, PhD

• Assoc. Prof. Dorina Dragancheva, PhD

• Assoc. Prof. Stefan Kyulevcheliev, PhD

• Assoc. Prof. Stoyan Stoyanov, PhD

• Assoc. Prof. Yordanka Kazandjieva, PhD

• Assoc. Prof. Stefan Goranov

• Assoc. Prof. Iliya Ganchev, PhD

• Prof. capt. Boyan Mednikarov, DS – N. Y. Vaptsarov Naval Academy, Varna

• Prof. Vassil Apostolov, DS – N. Y. Vaptsarov Naval Academy, Varna

• Prof. Nikolay Lyutov, PhD – VFU - Varna

• Assoc. Prof. Ovid Farhy, PhD - TU Varna

• Assoc. Prof . Atanas Palazov, PhD – IO-BAS, Varna

 

Assoc. Prof. Kostadin Yossifov, PhD
Director BSHC

Telephone: +359 52 370500

Academic qualification:

• MSc in Naval Architecture, Naval Academy Varna, 1966
• Ph D in Ship Theory, Technical University Sofia, 1977
• Research fellowship at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and KaMeWa Laboratory, Sweden, 1973
• Senior Research Scientist in Ship Theory, BSHC, 1981

Experience:

• Ship Propulsors
• Water Transport
• Technology Transfer Projects under UNDP and UNIDO
  

Professional membership:

• Advisory Council ITTC
• Union of Scientists in Bulgaria
• National Scientific and Technical Unions
• National Committee on Mechanics

Assoc. Prof. Evgeni Milanov, PhD
Deputy Director , Research and Development. Head of Maritime Informational Technologies & Computer Simulations Department

Telephone: +359 52 370506

Academic qualification:

• MSc in Naval Architecture at Gdansk Polytechnic – Poland, 1970
• PhD on Ship Theory at SMU, St.Petersburg, Russia, 1983
• Research Fellowship at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 1975
• Senior Research Scientist in Ship Theory, BSHC, 1987
  

  Experience:

• Ship Steering and Maneuverability
• Ship Handling Simulators
• Vessel Safety Operation
  
  

  Professional Membership:

• Union of Scientists in Bulgaria

Assoc. Prof. Rumen Kishev, PhD
Scientific Secretary. Head of Ship Dynamics & Ocean Engineering Department

Telephone: +359 52 370500

Academic qualification:

• MSc in Naval Architecture at TU Varna, 1972
• Postgraduate study at UT Delft, 1975
• PhD on Ship Dynamics at SMU, St. Petersburg, 1980
• Senior Research Scientist in Ship Dynamics, BSHC, 1986

Experience:

• Model Tests on Ships and Floating Structures in Waves and Wave Generation Methods in Towing Tanks
• Investigation on Seakeeping and Ship Stability
• Design of Ships by Operational Considerations
• On Board Computer Control Systems
• Simulation Based Design & Virtual Prototyping
• Lecturing on Marine Dynamics

Professional membership:

• 20th, 21st and 25th ITTC Seakeeping Committees
• 22nd ITTC Environmental Modeling Committee
• Union of Scientists in Bulgaria
• International Engineering Committee on Oceanic Resources (ECOR)
• NATO Specialist Team on Simulation Based Design & Virtual Prototyping

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Stefan Kyulevcheliev, PhD

Nead of Ship Hydrodynamics Department

Telephone: +359 52 370500

Academic Qualification:

•  MSc in Naval Architecture at TU Varna, 1976

•  MSc in Applied Mathematics at TU Sofia, 1978

•  Research Fellowship at Shipbuilding Institute at Hamburg University , 1984

•  PhD on Ship Theory at BSHC/TU Varna , 1990

•  Senior Research Scientist in Ship Theory, BSCH, 1995

Experience:

•  Hydrodynamic design of ship hull form

•  Experimental investigations in the ship powering performance field

•  Development of procedures for model hydrodynamic investigations, CFD-technologies, regression analyses of series data

•  Development of numerical procedures for prediction of the towing resistance of high speed vessels (semi-displacement round bilge, planing, ACV, SWATH, SES)

•  Investigations on shallow-water ship hydrodynamics

•  Numerical modeling of hydrodynamic processes using FLUENT

•  Management of projects financed from EC

Professional membership:

•  Chairman of the national section “Shipbuilding & Ship Repair” at the Bulgarian Federation of the Scientific Technical Unions

Assoc. Prof. Dorina Dragancheva, PhD
Head of Coastral Hydraulics & Environment Protection Department

Telephone: +359 52 370501/358

Academic qualification:

• M.Sc. on Hydro- and Aerodynamics, St. Peterburg Marine Technology University, 1973
• Ph.D. on Coastal Hydraulics, Moscow Research Institute on Water Resources, Hydraulic Engineering and Hydrology, (VODGEO), Moscow, 1992
• Senior Research Scientist on Sea Coastal Engineering, BSHC, 2005

Experience:

• Hydraulic Model Tests of Coastal and Harbour Structures
• Physical and Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamic, Sediment Transport and Environmental Processes in the Sea Coastal Zone
• Wave - Current Interaction

Professional membership:

• Black Sea Coastal Association
• Union of Scientists in Bulgaria
• National Federation of Scientific & Technical Unions

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Petar Zlatev

Head of Aerodynamics Department

Telephone: + 359 52 370500

Academic qualification:

•  MSc in Naval Architecture at TU Varna, 1970

•  Post-graduate Course Fluid Mechanics at SMU, St Petersburg , 1979

•  Senior Research Scientist on Fluid Mechanics, BSHC, 2001

Experience:

•  Dynamics of Viscous and Rheologically Complicated Flows

•  Physical and Mathematical Modeling in the Field of Ship Hydrodynamics

•  Aerodynamics Experimental Investigations

Professional membership

•  Union of Scientists in Bulgaria

Res . Fellow Rossen Nachev, MSc
Head of Experimental Technique & Technologies Division

Telephone: +359 52 370500

Academic qualification:

• MSc in Naval Architecture at Technical University, Varna, 1973.
• Fellowship at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.Ltd., Seakeeping Research Laboratory, Nagasaki, 1973
• Research Scientist in Ship Theory, BSHC, 1982

Experience:

• Model Experimental Investigations on Ships and Floating Objects and Structures in Waves
• Experimental Equipment and Devices for Dynamic Model Tests