About

I graduated as a physicist from Sofia University in 1974 and worked at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences until 1989 when I joined the University of Illinois. I have been the Director of the Center for Microanalysis of Materials in Urbana for over a dozen years. With my extensive collaborations with universities in Sweden, England, Austria, Canada, USA I travel a lot around the globe and try to devote a few hours each trip to go out in Nature with my camera. My research interests involve investigations of new materials which includes forming images with various kinds of electron microscopes at the micro- and nanometer levels. I can attest that Nature is beautiful at all length scales: from atoms, to our world, to the stars.