Dr. Nikolina SRETENOVA

Senior Researcher, Ph.D. Department for Philosophy of Science, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
6, Patriarch Evtimii Blvd., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

E-mail: sretenova@hotmail.com

Academic history: April 1970 - Graduated in Physics, University of Sofia; June 1982 - Doctor of Philosophy, Higher Testimonial Commission to the State Committee of Science and Technical Progress of Republic of Bulgaria, Thesis: "The Concept of Energy and the Law of Conservation of Energy in General Theory of Relativity (Philosophical and Methodological Analysis)", Supervisor: Acad. A. Polikarov

Academic Rank: Senior Researcher - 1999, Higher Testimonial Commission, Council of Ministers, Republic of Bulgaria

Languages: Native Bulgarian, Fluent English and Russian, good French and German

Former research positions: Researcher, Ph.D., Department for Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (from 1984 to 1989) and Researcher, Ph.D., Department of History of Science, Center for Science Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (from 1989 to 1995)

Current research position and academic address: Senior Researcher, Ph.D., Department for Philosophy of Science, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (since 1995 onwards), 6, Patriarch Evtimii Blvd., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria

Her field of research and expertise is History & Philosophy of Science, Science Studies, and Gender Studies.

She has 18 year long professional experience in full-time research on a post-doctoral level and 3 years PhD studies.

She has authored two monographs: "University and Physicists: The Beginning" (Physics in Bulgaria at the turn of the century), Heron Press, Sofia, 2000, and "Postmodern Science and Its Critics: On Einstein-Bohr Debate and A. Sokal Affair", Heron Press, Sofia, 1998, and co-authored the book: "World Yearbook of Education 1994: The Gender Gap in Higher Education, (Eds. S.Lie and L.Malik), London-Philadelphia, Kogan Page Ltd., 1994 (in English), and she has about 70 articles and papers published in Bulgarian, Russian, English and French.

Her research project "Physics in Bulgaria over the period 1890-1912" was awarded a three year research grant by the National Fund for Scientific Research in Bulgaria.

Since 1989 (the onset of political changes in my country) she has had the opportunity to apply for different Fellowships to many Western universities and scholar institutions. Over the last five years her research projects have been awarded the following research grants:

• In 2002: DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany;

• In 2000: A short-term research grant from the National Research Council of USA, USA;

• In 1999: A three-month Research Fellowship from the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum, München, Germany; (It was realized in 2001)

• In 1998: A two-week Visiting Fellowship to The University of Amsterdam, Department of Science Dynamics, The Netherlands from the NUFFIC;

• In 1997: An 8-month Research Fellowship from the Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, CNRS, Paris, France;

• In 1996: A NATO Research Fellowship (a supporting grant to a research project for a two-year period 1996-1998); one month Visiting Fellowship to Lund, Uppsala and Gothenburg Universities (September 1996) from The Swedish Institute and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden.

She participated in an International collaborative research project "The Gender Gap in Higher Education", which was funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Norway. The outcomes of this study appeared in the book: "World Yearbook of Education 1994: The Gender Gap in Higher Education, (Eds. S. Lie and L. Malik), London-Philadelphia, Kogan Page Ltd., 1994 (in English). Recently I visited Prof. Dr. Stephen Brush, a distinguished historian of science from University of Maryland, in order to discuss the opportunity to initiate a collaborative research project for further funding by NSF, USA.

Also, since 1989 she has had the opportunity to participate in numerous International Conferences and Congresses in my field (usually through participation grants offered by their organizers) held in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Turkey, etc.

Distinctions: External expert evaluator to the Panel "Economic, Social and Human Sciences" of the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development, and Demonstration Activities, 1999-2002.

Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, English, French and German