Since 2007     Head of Polymer Separation Group, Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research

Since 2011     Lecturer at Faculty of Science, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Technical University Dresden

1999                Ph.D. in Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institute of Polymer Research and Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz  (Prof. Dr. G. Wegner)

1996                Diploma in Chemistry, St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia and DWI at RWTH Aachen (Prof. Dr. S. Fakirov und Prof. Dr. H. Höcker)

1991–1996    Study in Organic and Analytical Chemistry, St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia

Awards

• Habilitation Award of the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts
• TEMPUS Diploma Award

Memberships

• Scientific-Technical Council of the IPF
• Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Separation and Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Macromolecules
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Subcommittee on Molecular Characterization of Polymers
• German Chemical Society (GDCh), Division Macromolecular Chemistry
• CASSS - An International Separation Science Society

Referee

• Journal of Chromatography A
• Journal of Separation Science
• European Polymer Journal
• Journal of Applied Polymer Science
• Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry
• Macromolecules
• Biomacromolecules
• Acta Biomaterialica
• Carbohydrate Polymers
• John Wiley & Sons, books
• Progress in Polymer Science
• Polymer Bulletin
• Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
• Macromolecular Rapid Communications
• Langmuir
• Polymer Chemistry
• Analytica Chimica Acta

and others