Our Team


The core team of LOFAR-BG is based in the Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences:

  • Assoc. Prof. Kamen Kozarev – kkozarev at astro.bas.bg
  • Assoc. Prof. Rositsa Miteva – rmiteva at astro.bas.bg
  • Assoc. Prof. Antoaneta Antonova – tantonova at astro.bas.bg
  • Assoc. Prof. Nikola Petrov – nick at astro.bas.bg
  • Assoc. Prof. Lyuba Slavcheva-Mihova – lslav at astro.bas.bg
  • Asst. Prof. Momchil Dechev – mdechev at astro.bas.bg
  • Asst. Asen Mutafov – amutafov at astro.bas.bg

The LOFAR-BG team at the Technical University-Sofia, Dept. of Radio Communications and Video Technologies:

  • Assoc. Prof. Peter Petkov – pjpetkov at tu-sofia.bg

The LOFAR-BG team at the Sofia University, Department of Astronomy:

  • Assoc. Prof. Evgeni Ovcharov – evgeni at phys.uni-sofia.bg
  • Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Bozhilov – vbozhilov at phys.uni-sofia.bg

The LOFAR-BG team at the Shumen University, Department of Astronomy:

  • Prof. Dragomir Marchev – d.marchev at shu.bg
  • Assoc. Prof. Sunai Ibryamov – s.ibryamov at shu.bg

In addition, the following students of the Master’s course “Popularization of Astronomy” at Sofia University (2018-2019) have contributed tremendously to the creation of the LOFAR-BG concept and idea at the earliest stages of the project:

  • Dragomir Apostolov
  • Hristo Astardzhiev
  • Stanislav Bozhkov
  • Plamena Vladimirova
  • Tsvetelina Gencheva
  • Mariana Djordjevich
  • Angel Dimitrov
  • Ventsislav Dimitrov
  • Evelina Zaharieva
  • Kaloyan Kirilov
  • Danislav Kodjabashev
  • Ivan Radev
  • Ludmila Filipova