Personal Page of Rositsa Titiorenkova

Rositsa Hristova TITORENKOVA
PhD

Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography (CLMC),
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)
Web site: http://www.clmc.bas.bg
1113 Sofia, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 107, BULGARIA
Phone: (+3592) 8700161; Fax.: (+3592) 9797056;
E-mail: rosititorenkovadirbg

CURRICULUM VITAE:

Place of birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
Date of birth: August , 1965
Nationality: Bulgarian

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES OBTAINED:

University education: MSc in geochemistry - 1989, Sofia University, Department of geology and geography, .
PhD in Mineralogy and Crystallography, 2006, Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography - Sofia.

FIELD OF INTEREST:

Metamict (disordered) minerals, Vibrational spectroscopy, structural defects in minerals and various materials.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

2001- actually, specialist, Division of Structural crystallography, Laboratory of spectroscopy, Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography (BAS).

PROJECTS:

2008 - 2010, Growth, characterization and investigation of the physical properties of new single crystals in the systems Bi-Co(Ni)-Mn(Ru)-O and La-Co(Ni)-Mn(Ru)-O and their magnetoelectrical/multiferoic behavior, Sen. Res. Fell. II Degree, PhD L. Konstantinov – coordinator from CLMC, NSF № TK-X-1712/07.
2008 - 2010, "Modification and modeling of physical parameters of crystals for optical storage and processing of information PI: Sen. Res. Fell. II Degree, PhD L. Konstantinov, 7 participants from CLMC + 1 PhD student, 5 - from Institute of Solid State Physics (BAS), 1 - from Central Laboratory of Optical Storage and Processing of Information (BAS), 1 – from Czech Academy of Sciences, NSF TK-X-1715/07.
2003-2007, Local structure and phonone anomalies in unhomogeneous oxide materials, (L. Konstantinov).
2003-2007, Design and structural analisys of nanosized areas in functional materials, (L. Konstantinov).
2002-2005, Nanoscale phase transformations in relaxor-ferroelectric lead scandium tantalate and lead scandium niobate (B. Mihailova, L. Konstantinov)

LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Titorenkova R., L. Macheva , N. Zidarov. 2002. Zircon typology of metagranites from Maleshevska and Ograzhden Mountains, SW Bulgaria, Comptes rendus de l, Acad. Bulg. Des Sci., 55, №9, 61-66.

2. Macheva L., Titorenkova R., N. Zidarov. 2005. Kyanite-staurolite-garnet-bearing schists from Ograzhden mountain, SW Bulgaria – metapelites or orthoschists, Proceedings of anniversary international scientific conference, 80th years Bulgarian geological society, 2005, 138-141.

3. Titorenkova, R. 2005. Heterogeneity of zircon from high –grade metamorphic rocks, Ograzhden and Maleshevska Mountains, Serbo-Macedonian massif. - Annual of the Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Department Geology and Geography, book 1 - Geology, 97, 35- 43.

4. Titorenkova R., B. Mihailova, L. Konstantinov. 2006. Raman spectroscopic study of variably recrystallized metamict zircon from amphibolite-facies metagranites, Serbo-Macedonian massif, Bulgaria. Can. Mineralogist, vol. 44. p. 1357-1366.