Leandar Litov

Prof. Leandar Litov is a Professor in Nuclear and Particle Physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski". He serves as Team Leader of the Sofia University team in CMS collaboration at CERN and chairs the Board of the SEEIIST Association.

• Established Master's in Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Co-founder of Bulgarian National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Initiator of Bulgarian Ion Therapy Center project

His research spans experimental particle physics, computational biophysics, and medical physics. He has participated in CMS, NA48, NA49, and NA62 experiments, focusing on rare decays and detector simulation.

Recent publications highlight his work on Higgs boson properties (2012-2019), dark photon searches, and computational biophysics applications like heparin's anti-inflammatory effects in COVID-19 (2020).

• 1200+ publications, 75,000+ citations
• h-index: 123 (INSPIRE), 105 (Scopus)

Notable awards include:

• Double JINR First Prize (1986, 1990)
• CERN Council membership
• "Pythagoras" National Awards (2010, 2013)