Svetozara Petrova
Personal Record
Full Name:
Svetozara I. Petrova
Date of Birth:
May 22, 1964
Place of Birth:
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Marital Status:
married, 2 children
Previous Affiliation
Affiliation
Institute for Parallel Processing
University of Applied Sciences
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Department of Applied Mathematics
Acad. G. Bontchev Str., Block 25A
Interaction 1
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
D-33619 Bielefeld, Germany
Tel: (+359)-2-979-6629
Tel: (+49)-521-106-7410
Fax: (+359)-2-872-2349
Fax: (+49)-521-106-7176
E-mail:
zara@parallel.bas.bg
svetozara.petrova@fh-bielefeld.de
Education
1982
- High school of mathematics,
Veliko Tarnovo
,
Bulgaria
1987
- M.Sc.,
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
,
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
1993
- Ph.D., Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
Thesis title: "Iterative methods for solving differential equations on grids with local refinement"
Thesis supervisor:
Prof. Dr. Raytcho Lazarov
; Thesis advisor:
Prof. Dr. Panayot Vassilevski
Professional Record
1987-1988
Specialization, Laboratory of Numerical Methods, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1988-1991
Ph.D. student, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.
1992
Visiting research,
Department of Mathematics
,
University of Wyoming
, Laramie,
Wyoming
, USA (2 months)
1992-2010
Research Associate,
Institute for Parallel Processing
,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
, Sofia, Bulgaria
1993-1994
PostDoc, Department of Mathematics,
Technical University Leoben
, Austria (18 months)
1994-1995
Visiting research, Department of Nuclear Metrology,
ULB
, Brussels, Belgium (10 months)
1996
Visiting research,
Department of Mathematics
,
Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg
, Germany (3 months)
1999-2000
Alexander von Humboldt
Fellow, Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Germany (18 months)
2000-2008
Research Associate,
Institute of Mathematics
,
University of Augsburg
, Germany
(DFG Project)
2003, 2007, 2008
Research Fellowship,
Mathematical Section
,
ICTP
, Trieste, Italy (1 month)
2008-present
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics
,
University of Applied Sciences
, Bielefeld, Germany
Fields of Research
Numerical methods for partial differential equations;
Multigrid and domain decomposition methods;
Adaptive grid refinement, a posteriori error estimators;
Structural optimization, nonlinear programming;
Elasticity problems, homogenization, microstructures;
PDE constrained optimization, multiscale problems;
Mathematical aspects of materials science;
Teaching
Numerical Linear Algebra;
Numerical Methods for PDEs;
Linear and Nonlinear Programming;
Interpolation and Approximation;
Sparse Matrix Computations;
Applied Structural Optimization;
Languages
English, German, Russian, French; Bulgarian (native)
Publications
Recent presentations
Back to Home Page