EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Nuclear Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1991
M.S., Particle and Nuclear Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1982

LANGUAGES:

Bulgarian (native)
Russian (fluent)
English (fluent)
German (good)
Czech (good)
French (fair)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2007-Present  IAC, Idaho State University (USA), Research Associate Professor
2004-2007      IAC, Idaho State University (USA), Senior Instrumentation Physicist
2003-2004      Dept. of Physics, University of Notre Dame (USA), Visiting Associate Professor
2001-2003      Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (Germany), Research Associate, ANKE Experiment @ COSY – Jülich
2000-2001      University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Associate Professor, Nuclear Physics
1992-2000      University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Senior Assistant Professor, Nuclear Physics
1989-1992      University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Research Associate
1985-1989      University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Ph.D. Student
1982-1985      Institute of Physiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Research Associate
   

 

PRE- AND POST-DOC VISITS:

1984                Institute of Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushino, USSR
1986, 1988       Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kernforschungsanlage (KFA) Jülich, Germany
1990-1991        Department of Physics, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
1994, 1996       Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA
1995                INT-95-3 program "Nuclear Structure under Extreme Conditions", University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
1998-2000        Institute of Hadron and Nuclear Physics, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
1998-2000        Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, USA

 

 

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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Pavlov V., Mazgalev T. and Dimitrov V.

"Supernormal conduction in the AVN upon sudden changes in the rhythm": Acta Physiol. Bulg. 9 (1983) p.71

• Н.И. Кукушкин, А.М. Перцов, А.К. Гренадер, Р.З. Гайнулин, В. Димитров, Г. Спасов

“ Сравнительное действие хлорацизина и его четвертичной производной ме-хлорацизина на электрофизиологические характеристики и сократимость миокардиальной ткани”
( N.I. Kukushkin et al. : „Comparative action of Chloracizine and its 4-derivative μ-Chloracizine on the electro-physiological characteristics and the contractions in heart tissue”)
        StudiaBiophysica 108 (1985) p.41

• Mazgalev T., Dreifus L.S., Pelleg A., Price R., Dimitrov V., Michelson E.L.

        “ Direct and indirect vagal modulation of AV nodal conduction”
         Federation Proc. 44 (1985) p.1361

• E.I.Vapirev, P.S.Kamenov, V.Dimitrov and D.Balabanski

       "Resonance detectors for time experiments"
        Nucl.Instr.Meth. A219 (1984) p.376

• D.L.Balabanski, P.S.Kamenov, V.I.Dimitrov and E.I.Vapirev

       "A note on the time-dependence of Moessbauer transmission"
        Nucl.Instr.Meth. В16 (1986) p.100

• B.Slavov, V.I.Dimitrov, K.Goeke, F.Gruemmer and P.-G.Reinhard

       "A measure of adiabaticity for nuclear collective motion"
        Nucl.Phys. A454 (1986) p.392

• V.I.Dimitrov, B.Slavov

       "Energy versus dispersion in some many-body techniques"
        Nucl.Phys. A480 (1988) p.312

• V.I.Dimitrov, B.Slavov

       "A practical three-dimensional angular momentum projection and
        the "energy vs. dispersion" problem"
        Bulg.J.Phys. 17 (1990) p.267

• B.Slavov, F.Gruemmer, K.Goeke, R.Gissler, V.I.Dimitrov, Ts.Venkova

       "Comparison of quantised ATDHF and GCM theory with application
        to the 12C + 20Ne system"
        Annual Report 1988, Kernforschungsanlage Juelich (1989) p.85
        J.Phys.G: Nucl.Part.Phys. G16 (1990) p.395

• V.I.Dimitrov, B.Slavov

       "A hybrid treatment of the rotational symmetry in nucleus"
        Phys. Lett. B252 (1990) p.1

• V.I.Dimitrov

       "Hybrid symmetry-conserving variational procedure
        for nuclear structure calculations"
        Phys.Rev. C50 (1994) p.2893

• V.I.Dimitrov, J.Engel, S.Pittel

       "Scattering of weakly interacting massive particles from 73Ge"
        Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) p.R291

• B.Slavov, V.I.Dimitrov

       "Influence of particle-number projection on potential
        energy surfaces of fissioning nuclei"
        Zeit.f.Phys. A353 (1995) p.289  
 

• E.I.Vapirev, V.I.Dimitrov, T. Jordanov and I. Christiskov

       "Conversion of highly enriched uranium in thorium-232-based
        oxide fuel for light and heavy water reactors: MOX-T fuel"
        Nucl. Eng. Design 167 (1996) p.105
        also: Известия ВУЗ: Ядерная Енергетика No.6 (1996) стр.97

• V.I.Dimitrov

       "On the thermal redshift"
        Phys.Lett. A241 (1998) p.218

• V.I.Dimitrov

"'Averaged' thermodynamics, energy equipartition and the third law"
        Compt. Rendue Bulg. Acad. Sci.  52 (1999)  No. 2

• Christoskov, E. Vapirev, P.Petkov, V. Dimitrov, T. Jordanov and

        T. Haralampieva
“ Computation of the fluence of fast neutrons in the reactor pressure vessel of unit I of Kozloduj NPP”
         Nucl. Eng. Design 191 (1999) p.349-357

• B.Slavov, V.I. Dimitrov

“Is it necessary to readjust the pairing force constant due to particle number projection?”
        Bulg.J.Phys. 26 (1999) p.43 

• V.I. Dimitrov, S. Frauendorf, F. Doenau

        “ Chirality of nuclear rotation”
        Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) p.5732

• V.I. Dimitrov, F.Doenau, S.Frauendorf

“ Hybrid version of the tilted axis cranking model and its application to 128Ba”
 Phys. Rev. C62 (2000) 024315

• G.Rainovski, Lo Bianco G., Balabanski D.L., Roussev G., Falconi G., Blasi N., Bazzacco D., de Angelis G., Napoli D.R., Cardona M.A., Kreiner A.J., Somacal H., Dimitrov V.I., Zhang J.Y., Donau F.
  “ Tilted three-quasiparticle band in Xe-123”

        Acta Phys. Hung. New Ser.-Heavy Ion Phys. 12 (2000) p.2111

• K.Starosta, Koike T., Chiara C.J., Fossan D.B., LaFosse D.R., Hecht A.A., Beausang C.W., Caprio M.A., Cooper J.R., Krucken R., Novak J.R., Zamfir N.V., Zyromski K.E., Hartley D.J., Balabanski D.L., Zhang J.Y., Frauendorf S., Dimitrov V.I.
  “Chiral doublet structures in odd-odd N=75 isotones: chiral vibrations”

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) p.971

• Amita, A. K. Jain, V. I. Dimitrov, and S. G. Frauendorf

“Magnetic dipole rotational bands in odd-A Rb isotopes”
        Phys. Rev. C 64, 034308 (2001)

• C.M. Petrache, Lo Bianco G., Bazzacco D., Lunardi S., Menegazzo R., Nespolo M., de Angelis G., Blasi N., Dimitrov V.I.,  Frauendorf S., Semmes P., Zhang J.Y.
  “Observation of a doublet band in the nucleus 128Pr”
  Phys. Rev. C 65, 054324 (2002)

 

• G.Rainovski, Balabanski D.L., Roussev G., Lo Bianco G., Falconi G., Blasi N., Bazzacco D., de Angelis G., Napoli D.R., Donau F., Dimitrov V.I.

 “Tilted dipole bands in 123,124Xe”
        Phys. Rev. C 66, 014308 (2002)

• G.Rainovski, Schnare H., Schwengner R., Plettner C., Kaubler L.,
  Donau F., Ragnarsson I., Eberth J., Steinhardt T., Thelen O.,
  Hausmann M., Jungclaus A., Lieb K.P., Muller A., de Angelis G.,
  Gadea A., Napoli D.R., Algora A., Jenkins D.G.,Wadsworth R.,
  Wilson A., Andrejtscheff W., Dimitrov V.I.
  “Shape coexistence at high spin in the N=Z+2 nucleus 70Se”

        Journ. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 28 (2002) p.2617

• G. Rainovski, Paul E.S., Chantler H.J., Nolan P.J., Jenkins D.G.,
  Wadsworth R., Raddon P., Simons A., Fossan D.B., Koike T.,
  Starosta K., Vaman C., Farnea E., Gadea A., Kroll T., Isocrate R.,
  de Angelis G., Curien D., Dimitrov V.I.
  “ Candidate chiral bands in the odd-odd nucleus 132Cs: Exploring the limits of chirality”

        Phys. Rev. C 68, 024318 (2003)

• V.Dimitrov, F.Doenau and S. Frauendorf

        “Left-Handed Nuclei”
        AIP Conf. Proc. 656 (2003) p.151-159
        (also nucl-th/0211063)

• G. Rainovski, Paul E.S., Chantler H.J., Nolan P.J., Jenkins D.G.,
  Wadsworth R., Raddon P., Simons A., Fossan D.B., Koike T.,
  Starosta K., Vaman C., Farnea E., Gadea A., Kroll T., de Angelis G., Isocrate R., Curien D., Dimitrov V.I.
  “ Planar and aplanar tilted bands in the odd-odd nucleus 132Cs”

        J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.  29 (2003) p.2763-2775

• P. Fedorets and V. Kleber for the ANKE collaboration

       “Investigation of the a+0 (980)-resonance with ANKE”
        Eur. Phys. J. A 18 (2003) p.339-341

• J. Timar., Joshi P., Starosta K., Dimitrov V.I., Fossan D.B., Molnar J., Sohler D., Wadsworth R., Algora A., Bednarczyk P., Curien D., Dombradi Z., Duchene G., Gizon A., Gizon J., Jenkins D.G., Koike T., Krasznahorkay A., Paul E.S., Raddon P.M., Rainovski G., Scheurer J.N., Simons A., Vaman C., Wilkinson A.R., Zolnai L., Frauendorf S.
  “ Experimental evidence for chirality in the odd-A 105Rh”

       Phys. Lett. B598 (2004) p.178-187

• J.R.B.Oliveira, Cybulska E.W., Medina N.H., Rao M.N., Ribas R.V., Rizzutto M.A., Seale W.A., Falla-Sotelo F., Wiedemann K.T., Dimitrov V.I., Frauendorf S., Alcantara-Nunez J.A.
  “ Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole rotational structures and chirality in 105Rh”

        Phys. Rev. C 69, 024317 (2004)

• J. Alcantara-Nunez, Oliveira J.R.B., Cybulska E.W., Medina N.H.
  Rao M.N.,  Ribas R.V., Rizzutto M.A., Seale W.A., Falla-Sotelo F.
  Wiedemann K.T.,  Dimitrov V.I., Frauendorf S.
  “ Chiral bands in 105Rh”

        Brazilian J. Phys. 34 (2004) p.999-1001

• J. H. Hamilton, Zhu S.J., Ramayya A.V., Gore P.M., Rasmussen J.O., Jones E.F., Hwang J.K., Xu R.Q., Yang L.Y., Li K., Jiang Z., Zhang Z., Ziao S.D., Zhang X.Q., Kormicki J., Luo Y.X., Chaturvedi L., Ma W.C., Cole J.D., Drigert M.W., Lee I.Y., Fallon P., Stoyer M.A., Ginter T.N., Ter-Akopian G.M., Daniel A.V., Oganessian Y.T., Donangelo R., Dimitrov V., Frauendorf S.

       “ New insights into neutron rich nuclei from fission”
       Nucl. Phys. A73 (2004) p.257-260

• G. Rainovski, Balabanski D.L., Dimitrov V.I.

       “Comment on “Probing nuclear structure of 124Xe”’
       Phys. Rev. C 72, 029801 (2005)

• S.J. Zhu, Hamilton J.H., Ramayya A.V., Gore P.M., Rasmussen J.O., Dimitrov V., Frauendorf S., Xu R.Q., Hwang J.K., Fong D., Yang L.M., Li K., Chen Y.J., Zhang X.Q., Jones E.F., Luo Y.X., Lee I.Y., Ma W.C., Cole J.D., Drigert M.W., Stoyer M., Ter-Akopian G.M., Daniel A.V.

       “Soft chiral vibrations in 106Mo”
       Eur. Phys. J. A direct (2005)
        DOI: 10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-204-0

• J. Timár, C. Vaman, K. Starosta, P. Joshi, V. I. Dimitrov, D. B. Fossan, T. Koike, D. Sohler, J. Molnár, R. Wadsworth, A. Algora, P. Bednarczyk, D. Curien, Zs. Dombrádi, G. Duchêne, A. Gizon, J. Gizon, D. G. Jenkins, A. Krasznahorkay, I.Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, E. S. Paul, P. M. Raddon, G. Rainovski, J. N.   Scheurer, A. J. Simons, A. R. Wilkinson, L. Zolnai, and S. Frauendorf

         “Composite Chiral Bands in the A~105 Mass Region”
        AIP Conf. Proc. 802 (2005) p.206-210

 

• M. Hartmann, Y. Maeda, I. Keshelashvili, H. R. Koch, S. Mikirtytchiants, S. Barsov, W. Borgs, M. Buescher, V. I. Dimitrov, S. Dymov, V. Hejny, V. Kleber, V. Koptev, P. Kulessa, T. Mersmann, S. Merzliakov, A. Mussgiller, M. Nekipelov, M. Nioradze, H. Ohm, K. Pysz, R. Schleichert, H. J. Stein, H. Stroeher, K.-H Watzlawik, and P. Wuestner

        “Near-Threshold Production of _ Mesons in pp Collisions”
       Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 242301 (2006)

• V. I. Dimitrov

“On Shannon-Jaynes Entropy and Fisher Information”
MaxEnt 2007, August 2007, Saratoga Springs, NY
to appear in AIP Conf. Proc. 
     

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• V.Dimitrov, B.Slavov

       "Collective submanifoflds: Equations of motion and equations of
        path"
        Proc. of "Topical meeting on phase-space approach to nuclear
dynamics" ICTP - Trieste,Italy  World Sci. Publ. (1986) p.630-636

• V.I.Dimitrov, B.Slavov

       "A naive model for the ground-state properties of even-even
        mirror nuclei"
        Jahresbericht 1988, KFA Juelich (Jul-Spez-499, April 1989) p.81

 

• V.I.Dimitrov and W. Beezhold

Potential of Proton Capture Reactions on Light Nuclei for Producing Portable Gamma Source“
        Active Interrogation Workshop, Idaho National Lab, June 2004

• V.I.Dimitrov, W. Beezhold, J.Ellis, V. Bailey, H. Lackner and T. Webb

       “The ISIS pulsed power accelerator facility at ISU”
        24th Annual HEART Conference, Santa Clara, CA, March 2006

• Book:

     Co-author of a textbook “Physics and Astronomy” for High School,
     Sofia, Bulgaria 2001