some many many years ago...
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I was born in Bulgaria: |
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If you want to learn something about the history of my country click on |
Some Facts and Data (a kind of CV)
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some many many years ago...
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Name: | Rumiana* Dimova | ||
| Date of birth: | 06 April 1971 | |||
| Languages: | English, French, Russian (basics), Bulgarian (native)
+German: under construction |
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History:
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1990: graduated English Language Secondary School, Bulgaria
1995: obtained MSc degree in Theoretical chemistry and chemical physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. Kralchevsky
Thesis Title: Role
of the Ionic-Correlation and the
Hydration
Surface Forces (
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in the Stability of Thin Liquid Films
... and I became a physical chemist. 
1997: obtained a second MSc degree within the framework of the international exchange program TEMPUS
Thesis Supervisors: Prof. B. Pouligny and Prof. P. Kralchevsky
Thesis Title: Interactions between Model Membranes and Micron-Sized Particles
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... and I learnt what a vesicle is. Later on I understood what |
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November 1999: PhD, Bordeaux University, France (in collaboration with Sofia University, Bulgaria);
The work was prepared in Centre de Recherche Paul-Pascal (CRPP)
Thesis Supervisors: Prof. B. Pouligny, Prof. P. Kralchevsky and Prof. K. Danov
Thesis Title: Hydrodynamic properties of model lipid membranes: study by means of optical trapping manipulation of particles
... and I became an (optical) trapper and
a Dr. on vesicles. 
January 2000: started a postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Colloids and Surfaces, Theory Division, Golm, Germany
Project (under the supervision of PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Hans-Günther Döbereiner): Adsorption of amphiphilic polymers on model membranes
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... and it turned out that some polymers induce violent changes on the membrane curvature |
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March 2000: group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Colloids and Surfaces, Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Golm, Germany (link to my group)
April 2005: staff scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Colloids and Surfaces, Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Golm, Germany
Last update: December 11, 2009
* My first name is usually confused with Rumina, Romina, Rumania or Romania. The latter is a country, I'm not.
However, I'm open to new suggestions as a variation of the name. :-)
... back
to my CV
According to the last update of my passport by the Bulgarian authorities my name was changed from Rumiana to Rumyana...
And that is only because in reality the correct
spelling is "
" ...
Blame all this confusion to our Cyrillic alphabet.
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* The tough vesicles usually look like this: (for details have a look at our study on polymersomes) |
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