PhD in Medicine – Doctor – Pleven (Medical University)
Specialist in Forensic Medicine – National Center for Forensic Medicine and Deontology, Department of Forensic Medicine and Deontology (Medical University – Sofia)
Forensic aspects of road accidents, medical and detonological problems – Department of Forensic Medicine and Deontology, Faculty of Medicine (Thracian University), Stara Zagora
Forensic medical identification of human skeletal remains, with special participation of Art. Professor Y. Yordanov – National Center for Forensic Medicine and Deontology (Medical University – Sofia)
Training and exchange of forensic experience at a AAFS-certified unit – Department of Forensic Science, University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Department of Forensic Sciences, University of Crete, Medical School, Heraklion, Crete
Certificate of training in “Important Forensic point of two-wheeled insects: Identification workshop” – European Association of Judicial Entomology (AEFE), Faculty of Natural Sciences, Nikolay Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
Doctor of Medicine – Scientific and Educational Degree – Medical University Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
Medical Experience
Deputy Chief Editor of the “Pleven Medicine” newspaper
Doctor at “Dr. Tota Venkova” Hospital
Lecturer at ICSTPS “Alfa-Metal”
Head of Department of Forensic Medicine at “Dr. Tota Venkova” Hospital
Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine – Medical University – Pleven, Department of Forensic Medicine and Deontology, Faculty of Public Health
Additional qualifications
Scientific activity in the field of forensic medicine, mainly on technologies for determining the limitation of death, tanthology, forensic anthropology, forensic entomology, post mortem bacteriology.
PhD thesis. Over 30 scientific publications and participations in international congresses
In June 2011, on invitation, he read a lecture on Forensic Medicine, at an international symposium (participants from 11 countries) in Tirgu Mures, Romania
There is a chapter on forensic expertise (author), a guideline on forensic medicine for forensic specialists, which is published in Russian language in Moscow, Russia, under the editing of Art.RRMN Prof. Dr. Pigolkin
Appointed by the Minister of Health in the Committee for the Preparation of the Medical Standard “Forensic Medicine” – 2011
Member of a commission in the Ministry of Justice, for the elaboration of the concept of court expertises and the concept of forensic medicine in Bulgaria – 2011
Membership in scientific organizations:
European Council of Forensic Medicine (ECLM) – Delegate Member of Bulgaria,
International Academy of Forensic Medicine (IALM),
European Society of Forensic Anthropology (FASE)
European Association of Forensic Entomology (EAFE),
European Anthropological Association (EAA),
Balkan Academy of Forensic Science (BAFS)
Osteuropa-Verein Rechtsmedizin e.V.,
Deputy Chairperson of the Bulgarian Institute of Forensic Medicine Specialists,
Bulgarian Society of Anthropology,
Association of Forensic Doctors in Bulgaria,
Bulgarian Doctors’ Union, Deputy Chairman of the Ethics Committee at the RLC of BMA – Gabrovo
Association of Bulgarian Judicial Experts,
Member of the Management Board of Regional Union of Stara Planina Hospitals
