Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atomic Physics
Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” & CERN
Prof. Leandar Litov graduated from the Faculty of Physics of
Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” in 1980, majoring in nuclear and
particle physics. He worked for 10 years at the Joint Institute for
Nuclear Research (JINR) – Dubna. In 1990 he returned to Sofia
University, where he lectures since then in quantum and particle
physics. He is supervisor of the Master's program "Nuclear and
Particle physics", coordinator of the Bachelor program "Medical
Physics", Head of the Atomic Physics Department in the period
2007 – 2012. His research interests are in theoretical and
experimental particle physics, design and construction of
detectors of ionizing radiation, high performance computing and
biophysics. He has been conducting investigations at the
Serpukhov accelerator and – since 1992 – at the accelerator
complex at CERN. Founding member of the CMS collaboration and
Team Leader of the Sofia University team involved in the
experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Author and co-author of
over 600 scientific papers, laureate of a number of national and
international scientific awards, among them two “Pythagoras”
Bulgarian Awards – for exceptional scientific contributions and for
most successful PhD-students supervision. Chair of the Institution
Board of RPC CMS Collaboration, member of European Commission
for Future Accelerators (ECFA) and of the CERN Council.
http://litov.web.cern.ch/litov/
