Iliya Atanassov

Chief Assistant Professor Iliya Atanassov serves at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University, holding dual administrative roles as Associate Dean for "Accreditation and Ratings" and Scientific Secretary of the Department. His teaching portfolio includes Microeconomics I/II, Money/Banking, Behavioral Economics, and Corporate Economics courses, with contact via i.atanasov@feb.uni-sofia.bg and Wednesday office hours on MS Teams.

His research spans Economic Modeling, Economic Growth, Behavioral Economics, Econometrics, and Information Economics, focusing on how information impacts economic agent behavior. Key investigations include EU convergence dynamics, social network uncertainty, and low-carbon transition effects in Bulgaria's energy sector.

Recent publications (2019-2021) demonstrate interdisciplinary economic scholarship across journals like Economic Studies (Scopus Q2/Q3) and IFAC-PapersOnLine, addressing convergence clubs in the EU, opinion dynamics in social networks, and growth impacts of energy transitions through empirical and theoretical lenses.