CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: ​		Stefan Ivanov Gandev
Date of birth:				07 August 1962		Birthplace:		Sliven, Bulgaria
Office Address: Fruit Growing Institute 12, Ostromila 4004, Plovdiv Bulgaria							Home Address: 12 “Vladivostok” 4002, Plovdiv Bulgaria
Phone:			+359 32 69 23 49				Phone:		+ 359 899 827 607
E-mail:			instov@abv.bg				E-mail:		s.gandev@abv.bg
Education: Higher Agricultural Institute; Specialty: Viticulture and horticulture, 1987
Foreign Languages: English
Scientific degrees: Fruit Growing Institute - Ph.D., 2000 Fruit Growing Institute - Doctor of Science, 2015
Occupied administrative and scientific positions: Fruit Growing Institute - Director since 2012 Fruit Growing Institute - Professor since 2017 Fruit Growing Institute - Associate professor, 2012 - 2017 Fruit Growing Institute - Researcher І degree, 2000 - 2012 Fruit Growing Institute - Researcher ІI degree 1993 -2000 Fruit Growing Institute - Researcher ІII degree 1988 - 1993 Agrarian industrial complex - agronomist, village of Rechitsa, 1987-1988
Membership in International Commissions, Scientific councils and Advisory Boards - Member of the Advisory Board on fruit growing to the Minister for Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Bulgaria since 2013 - Member of the Management Board of Agricultural Academy - since 2015  - Chairman of the Scientific council on fruit growing and viticulture of Agricultural Academy - since 2019 - Representative of Bulgaria to Council of the International Society for Horticultural Science since 2014 - Member of the Commission ‘Pome and Stone Fruits’ of the International Society for Horticultural Science since 2014 - Member of the Commission ‘Plant Genetic Resources’ of the International Society for Horticultural Science since 2014 - Member of the Scientific Council of Fruit Growing Institute - 2012 to 2018 - Member of the Management Board of the Experimental Station of Viticulture - September - 2015 to 2017
Fields of Research (Key words): Plant propagation, training and pruning system, walnut genetic resources, behaviour of standard and certified planting material growing in containers.
Specializations (Country, Institution, Duration, Year): - 01.10.1993 – 04.01.1994 г. Royal Research Station of Gorsem – Belgium. Three – month fellowship, subject: ‘Training and pruning systems’. - 01.07.2003 – 31.07.2003 Centro di ricerca per la frutticoltura – Roma, Italy. One-mount fellowship, subject: ‘Walnut propagation’
Membership in Scientific and Professional Organizations: International Society for Horticultural Science Regional Society of the Specialist in Agriculture
Participation of editorial boards: - Member of the Editorial board of Bulgarian Journal of Crop Science since 2014 - Member of the Editorial board of Journal of Mountain Agriculture on the Balkans since2016 - Member of the Editorial board of Acta Horticulturae; 1139, 2015; - Member of the Editorial board of Acta Horticulturae, 1259, 2019
Reviewer of articles for scientific journals: Scopus - Acta Horticulturae, Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Hortorum Cultus, Kuwait Journal of Science, Journal of Horticultural Research, International Journal of Fruit Science Bulgarian Journal of Crop Science, Reports of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science, Journal of Mountain Agriculture on the Balkans, Agricultural Science and Technology, Plant Science
Reviews of dissertations and technologies: Reviewer for obtaining the academic position "Professor" - 5 pcs. Reviewer for obtaining the academic position "Associate Professor" – 4 pcs. Reviewer of Ph.D. - 4 pcs. Reviewer of technology - 1 pcs.
Scientific projects: Total – 22 pcs. National – 17 pcs. International – 5 pcs.
Publications: -           110 publications -           3 monographs (in Bulgarian) -           1 encyclopedic monograph (in English) -           1 handbook on Fruit growing
Citations: Total – 344 -   274 (in English)  - 70 (in Bulgarian)
Member of scientific and organising committees of international forums: - II International symposium on wild relatives of subtropical and temperate fruit and nut crops 07-l2th April 2014 BAKU/Azerbaijan - EUFRIN Plum and Prune Working Group Meeting, Skopelos island, Greece, August 20-21, 2015 - International Symposium on Role of Plant Genetic Resources on Reclaiming Lands and Environment Deteriorated by Human and Natural Action’ Iran,16-20 May 2016 - International Conference On Agriculture & Horticulture November 11th to 13th, 2019 Rome, Italy - 2nd International Conference and Expo on Agriculture & Horticulture (ICEAH-2019) August 12-13, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic -“International Conference on Plant Science Technology and Molecular Biology (ICPM 2019) May 23-25, 2019, at Valencia, Spain - „First International Gobeklitepe Agriculture Congress“ (IGAC-2019) October 22 - 25 Sanliurfa, Turkey - 2nd International Conference on Agriculture, Food Sciences and Aquaculture, 2021, November, 22-24, Bangkok, Thailand. - 6th Edition of Global Congress on Plant Biology and Biotechnology (GPB 2022)” , March 24 -26, 2022, Singapore.
Moderator of sessions of International Scientific Symposiums: - Fourth International Agronomic Symposium ‘Agrosym‘ 2013; October 3-6, 2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina - Second International Symposium on Wild Relatives of Subtropical and Temperate Fruit and Crops, 07-12th April 2014 Baku, Azerbaijan - III Balkan Symposium on Fruit Growing, 16-18 september, 2015, Belgrade, Serbia. - 10th Annual International Symposium on Agricultural Research, 10-13 July 2017, Athens, Greece
Convener of International Conferences - III International Symposium on Horticultural Crop Wild Relatives, Bulgaria, 2018
Created cultivars and technologies: -          Walnut cultivar ‚Vasden‘ -          Walnut cultivar Izvor 10 (racimous) -          Technology for walnut growing (Juglans regia L.)
Received scientific awards: - Diploma from the Union of the Inventors in Bulgaria, 2015 - Plaque and diploma from the International Fair Plovdiv for the development of "Walnut Growing Technology", 2018 - A medal from the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) for organizing a scientific forum