Stanislav Balouchev

Stanislav Balouchev is an External Senior Fellow (Dec 2014–Sep 2015) at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria. He holds an affiliation as Assistant Professor at Technical University Sofia and has held multiple international fellowships. His research focuses on nonlinear optics, atomic physics, and material science.

Education: M.Sci. in Laser Physics (1990), PhD in Dark Spatial Solitons (1995) from Sofia University. Postdoctoral fellowships include DAAD (Hannover University, Germany), Feinberg (Weizmann Institute, Israel), and Marie-Curie (PTB, Germany). He habilitated in Optics and Spectroscopy at Sofia University (2009).

Research interests include coherent population trapping, laser cooling, conjugated polymer optics, and organic system upconversion processes.

Professional affiliations include MPIP (groups of G. Wegner and K. Landfester) and collaborations at Technical University Graz (Austria), Weizmann Institute (Israel), and PTB Braunschweig (Germany).