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Dragomir Kolev Gospodinov PhD

 

- Associate Professor at Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"

     

Address:

Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"

Faculty of Physics and Engineering Technologies

Tsar Asen str., 24

4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria

      

Tel: (359) 32 261278               

Email: drago_pld@yahoo.com drago@uni-plovdiv.bg

mobile: (359) 886 997929                    

 


 My CV                                                                                                List of publications

 Research topics                                                                                Research abroad

 Participation in scientific conferences                                          Research projects

 Teaching activity                                                                             Published abstracts

         

 

Curriculum  Vitae  et  Studiorum

of Dragomir Kolev Gospodinov 

BORN

            May  21, 1956,   Topolovgrad,  Bulgaria

 

EDUCATION

            

Ph.D. in Physics - Geophysical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,

                            Diploma No26383 from October 19, 1999, Sofia

                         - Thesis - "Statistical analysis of  Earthquake Sequences to Model

                            Seismic Regime in the Balkan  Region"

 

M.Sc.Degree   - Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski”,  Sofia,  Bulgaria

  in Geophysics               - from  1977  to  1982,  graduated  November  19,  1982- Diploma No.096375

 

B.Sc.Degree in Physics  - Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski", Sofia,  Bulgaria - 1980

 

High School     - Secondary English Language School, town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria

                                   - from  1970  to  1975, graduated   June  29, 1975

                                    - school leaving certificate    A No.0285595 

            

Other specialization - 1983, a  course on PC-s,  town of Jambol, certificate No.00123  of November 23, 1983

 

 

RESEARCH abroad

 

- Guest researcher for 1 month (October, 2006) at 'Aristotle' University in Thessaloniki, Greece, Geophysical Department - Joint research with Prof. Eleftheria Papadimitiou and Prof. Vassilios Karakostas on 'Relaxation patters after strong earthquakes in Greece'

 

- Guest researcher for 1 month (November-December, 2006Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Via Bassini 15, 10133 Milan, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi 

 

- Guest researcher for 6 months (September 2003-March 2004) after a NATO-CNR grant at Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Via Bassini 15, 10133 Milano, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi on ‘Exploring of triggering models for aftershock occurrence in time - RETAS model''

 

- Guest researcher for one month (June, 2000) at Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica, Via Ampere 56, 10131 Milano, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi on ‘Stochastic modelling of aftershock sequences'

 

- Guest researcher for two months (May, June, 1997) at Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica, Via Ampere 56, 10131 Milano, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi on ‘Exploratory analysis of marked point processes applied to earthquake sequences’

 

- Laboratory of statistics, Inst. of Physics of the Earth, Ac.Sci. Russia, Moscow, Russia for one  month (October 1985) under the guidance of Prof. Keilis-Borok on 'Statistical models of earthquake  clustering '

 

MAIN FIELDS OF INTEREST - Seismology; Stochastic modelling of the seismic process and seismic hazard estimation, Natural Hazards, Seismic Monitoring, Site effects, Fractals

 

Foreign Languages  - English - speak, read & write fluently

                                                Russian - speak, read & write fluently

 

EMPLOYMENT  RECORD

 

            Place - Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"

                        Faculty of Physics and Engineering Technologies 

                        'Tsar Asen' str., 24, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria

                        Period - Since  December 1st, 2008 - present time

            Position - Associate Professor

          

            Place - Geophysical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

                        Akad. G. Bontchev str.  bl.3,  Sofia, Bulgaria

                        Period -    Since  October 1999 - December 2008

            Position - Associate Professor,  Head of the Geophysical observatory in Plovdiv

           

Place  - Geophysical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

                        Akad. G. Bontchev str.  bl.3,  Sofia, Bulgaria

                        Period -    Since  October 1982 - October 1999

                        Position -  Research scientist, Head of the Geophysical observatory in Jambol

 

PUBLICATIONS – see below

           

MARITAL STATUS

            Married, one child

 

GENERAL CONDITION

            Healthy

 

ADDRESS

Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"                                         Tel: ++359 32 634530

Faculty of Physics and Engineering Technologies                    fax: ++359 32 634531

Tsar Asen str., 24                                                                     E-mail: drago_pld@yahoo.com

4000 Plovdiv                                                                                                    drago@uni-plovdiv.bg

Bulgaria

                          

                                              

                                            

 List of publications

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Ranguelov B., D. Gospodinov, (1982), On some peculiarities of the seismicity and its spatial distribution for the Balkan Peninsula region, Bulgar. Geophys.J., Vol.VIII No.2, pp.59-65.

Christoskov  L., B.Ranguelov, D.Gospodinov, (1984), A probabilistic model for earthquake prediction in a certain seismic zone, BGS., Vol.10, No2, pp43-52 (in Bulgarian)

Gospodinov D., (1985), Verifying the independence of adjacent seismic zones in the Upper-Thracian valley, BGS, Vol X, No.4, pp 107-112 (in Bulgarian).

Christoskov  L., B.Ranguelov, D.Gospodinov, (1985), Some results of the application of a stochastic model for earthquake prediction for the Agean seismic zone, BGS, Vol.XI, No.1, pp 41-46 (in Bulgarian).

Christoskov  L., B.Ranguelov, D.Gospodinov, (1986),A stochastic model for earthquake prediction, Proceed. of the Intern.Symp. on ENGINEERING GEOLOGY PROBLEMS  IN SEISMIC AREAS, 13-19 April, 1986, Potenza,   Napoli, Italy,Vol.I, pp.177-182.

Christoskov  L., B.Ranguelov, D.Gospodinov, (1986), A stochastic model for the prediction of  strong earthquake - generalization and results of its application, Proceed. of the Scient. Confer. ‘25-years Anniv. of the Geophys. Inst.’, pp.15-26, (in Bulgarian).

Gospodinov D., L.Christoskov, (1988), Model investigations of earthquake space distribution, Proceed. of the XXI Gen.Ass. of ESC, 23-27 August, 1988, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp.50-57.

Gospodinov D., (1990a), Non-random features of earthquake sequences in the Balkan region, Bulgar.Geophys.J.,  Vol.XIV   No.3,  pp.56-66.

Gospodinov D., (1990b), Clustering properties of earthquake sequences in the Balkan region,Proceed.of the XXII Gen.Ass. of ESC, 17-22 September, 1990, Barcelona, Spain.

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov, (1994a), Seismic activity after the earthquake of March 31, 1901 in the Shabla-Kaliakra region (Bulgaria), Bulgar. Geophys. J., Vol.XX  No.2, pp.44-49 (in Bulgarian).

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov, (1994b), Tsunami energy distribution according to the Black sea geometry, Proceed. of the XXIV Gen. Ass. of ESC, September 19-24, Athens, Greece, pp.1808-1813.

Gospodinov D., (1994c), Subclustering of events in a single aftershock sequence, Proc. of the XXIV Gen. Ass. of ESC, September 19-24, Athens, Greece, pp.335-344.

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov, (1995), Tsunami vulnerability modeling for the Bulgarian Black sea coast, Wat. Sci.Tech., Vol.32, No.7, pp.47-53.

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov, S.Rizhikova, T.Toteva, (1998), Kresna seismic zone as a test site for seismic potential research, Proc. îf the XXVI General Ass. of ESC, Tel Aviv, August 23-28, Israel, p.41-44

Gospodinov D., (1998), Statistical test for independence. Application to the analysis of data from adjacent seismic zones in the Upper-Thracian Valley, Review book of papers from the symposium ‘Geodinamical investigations, connected with 1928 year earthquakes in Chirpan-Plovdiv, pp 77-84 (in Bulgarian) 

Gospodinov, D., 1999, Seismic regime modeling by analyzing of earthquake sequences in the Balkan region, PhD Thesis, Records of the Geophys.Inst.Bulgar.Ac.Sci., 1999, Sofia

Ranguelov B., S.Rizhikova,  S.Shanov, D.Gospodinov, T.Toteva,(1999), Analysis of the earthquake potential of Kresna-Krupnik seismic zone, Proc. of the Symp. Geodinam. studies of the 1904 earthquakes in Krupnik-Kresna, 27-28 April, 1999, pp.191-195

Ranguelov B., D. Gospodinov, S. Rizhikova, T. Toteva. ,(1999),  Kresna seismic zone - a test site for seismic potential research., Proc. SEE-3., Tehran, 17-19 May, 1999, vol. I, p.193-195.

Ranguelov B., S. Rizhikova, S. Shanov, D. Gospodinov, T. Toteva., (2 000), The seismic potential for the Kresna-Kroupnik zone - SW Bulgaria., (monograph series Geodynamic investigations on the territory of Bulgaria, Ed. Sledzinski J.), No4 (49), pp. 237-241 ,Warsaw,

Gospodinov, D. and Rotondi,  R., (2000), On the identification of the aftershock sequences of the 1904 and 1931 strong earthquakes in Kresna region SW Bulgaria, Reviews of Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica, Milano, Italy  

Gospodinov, D. and Rotondi,  R., (2001), Exploratory analysis of marked Poisson Processes applied to Balkan earthquake sequences, Journ. Balkan Geoph. Soc., 4, 3, 61-68.

Gospodinov, D. and E. Marekova, (2001), Comparative analysis of some aftershock sequence  fractal properties, Proc. of the  Jubilee conference 40 years Plovdiv University, November 21, 2001, Scientif.Works Vol.34, Book 4, pp165-171, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Gospodinov, D. and B. Ranguelov, (2002), Seismicity of Tundza seismic zone and possibilities for seismic hazard assessment for the town of Jambol, Proc. of the Intern. Conference ‘Space-Nature-Man’, October 9-11, Jambol, Bulgaria, pp.72-81

Marekova E. and D. Gospodinov, (2003), Some features of the seismic process in the Upper- Thracian valley, Proc. of the An. Sci. Conf. of the Ass., Sci. in Bulgaria, sec. N.Sciences, November 8, 2002, Plovdiv, vol. III, pp. 203-208

Ranguelov, B., S.Dimitrova, D.Gospodinov, G.Lamykina, (2003), Fractal properties of the Mediterranean            seismotectonic model for seismic hazard assessment, Proc.  Ann. conference '50 years MGU', June 26, 2002, Sofia, vol.46, part I, Geology and geophysics, pp. 397-401.

Ranguelov, B., S.Dimitrova, D.Gospodinov, (2003), Fractal configuration of the Balkan seismotectonic             model for seismic hazard, Proc. BPU-5, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia and Montenegro,  pp. 1377-1380. (on CD)

Gospodinov, D., E.Marekova, (2003), Fractal properties  of simulated points in 2D space and possible applications to seismicity analysis, Proc. BPU-5, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia and Montenegro, SP11-004, pp.1385-1388

Ranguelov B., G.Lamykina, D.Gospodinov., (2003), Classification of the damages caused by the natural disasters,Proc. Intl.Sci.Conf. “Korotkov”, Vladivostok, Russia, pp. 157-163.

Ranguelov B., Dimitrova S., Gospodinov D., Spassov E., Lamykina G., Papadimitriou E., Karakostas V., (2004), Fractal properties of the south Balkans seismotectonic model for seismic hazard assessment., Proc. 5th Intl. Symposium on East. Mediterranean Geology., Tessaloniki, Greece, pp. 643-646.

Gospodinov, D., (2004), Simulation of some point processes in aftershock analysis, Proc. Intern. sympos. "Science & Education", October 1-3, Jambol, 2004, Vol.3, pp.109-115

Gospodinov D., Marekova E., Model studies of the energy distribution of seismic sequences in the Upper-Thracian depression, Sci. papers, v.35, b.4, 2004-Physics, PU "P.Hilendarski", 59-66

Ranguelov, B., D. Gospodinov, S. Dimitrova, (2004), Some nonlinear approaches for natural hazards studies, 4-th National Geoph. Conference, 4-5 October, 2004, Sofia, pp.135-137

Karakostas, V., E. Papadimitriou, M. Tranos, E. Giannakopoulou, Ch. Vedouzi, M. Spiridopoupou, B. Rangeulov,   D. Gospodinov and S. Dimitrova, (2004), Seismotectonic properties of SW Bulgaria, 4-th National Geoph. Conference, 4-5 October, 2004, Sofia, pp.79-81

Gospodinov, D., V. Karakostas, R. Papadimitriou, (2005), Stochastic modelling of the relaxation process after the M=9.0 Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004; preliminary analysis, Proc. of the  4th Con. of the Balkan Geoph. Society, 9-12 October 2005, Bucharest, Romania, pp.327-330

Gospodinov, D., B. Ranguelov, E. Papadimitriou, V. Karakostas, (2005), Statistical methods to analyze seismicity interaction in neighbor zones; application to simulated data, Proc. of the 80-years Anniv.Intern. Sci. Conference on Geology, Sofia, November 17-18, 2005, pp.185-188

Gospodinov D. and Rotondi R., (2006),  "RETAS: a restricted ETAS model inspired, by Bath's law", The 4th Internat.Workshop on Statistical Seismology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shonan Village, Japan, 9-13 January 2006, ISM (Institute of Statistical Mathematics) Report on Research and Education No. 23, 92-95.

Gospodinov, D., R. Rotondi,(2006), Statistical Analysis of Triggered Seismicity in the Kresna Region of SW Bulgaria (1904) and the Umbria-Marche Region of Central Italy (1997), Pure appl. geophys., 163, 1597–1615

Tranos M., Karakostas V., Papadimitriou E., Kachev V., Ranguelov B., Gospodinov D., (2006), Major active  faults of SW Bulgaria: implications of their geometry, kinematics and the regional active stress regime., in Tectonic development of the Eastern Mediterranean region. (Robertson A. and Mountrakis D. - eds.), Geological Society of London, Special publications 260, pp. 671-687.

 Karaksotas V., Papadimitriou E., Gospodinov D., Ranguelov B., (2006), Slip distribution for the 1928 Chirpan and Plovdiv main shocks and earthquake triggering., Proc. Intl.Conf. SGEM 2006 - papers., Albena, 12-16 June., vol. 2, p. 119-126.

 B. Ranguelov, S. Dimitrova, D. Gospodinov, G. Lamykina, (2007). Geodynamics of the South Balkans -    Seismotectonic Model, Fractality and Nonlinear Properties., in Monograph GEODYNAMICS OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA (Ed.G.Milev), Reports of Geodesy, No. 5 (80), pp. 609 – 626.

Papadimitriou E., V. Karakostas, M. Tranos, B. Ranguelov, D. Gospodinov., (2007). Static stress changes  associated  with normal faulting earthquakes in South Balkan area., Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch.), Springer-Verlag, Volume 96, Number 5, pp. 911-924, DOI: 10.1007/s00531-006-0139-x

Gospodinov D., Ranguelov B, Papadimitriou E. and Karakostas V.,  (2007), Exploratory Application of a Compound Poisson Process to Model Aftershock Energy Release  After the November 3, 2002 Denali Fault M7.9 Earthquake, Alaska,  Proc. of the  Int. Symp.on  “MODERN TECHNOLOGIES, EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN  GEODESY AND RELATED FIELDS”,  Sofia, 8 - 9 November 2007, pp. 303-314

Ranguelov, B., S, Dimitrova, D. Gospodinov, G. Alexiev, G. Mardirosyan, (2007), Natural hazards and the environmentally disturbed region of the 'Maritza-Iztok' open coal Mines, Bulgaria, Proc. of the Intern. Confer. on 'Protection of Natural Disaster Disturbed Areas', November 22-24, 2007, Slovakia, pp 15-22

Gospodinov D., Papadimitriou E. and Karakostas V., Ranguelov B, (2007), Analysis of relaxation temporal patterns in Greece through the RETAS model approach, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Vol 165/3-4, pp 158-175, DOI information: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.09.001

Ranguelov B., Mardirossian G., Gospodinov D., Spassov E., 2008 - The EU SCHEMA Project – Bulgarian participation. SENS 2008 - Fourth Scientific Conference with International Participation SPACE, ECOLOGY, NANOTECHNOLOGY, SAFETY - 4–7 June 2008, Varna, Bulgaria: 161 – 165.

Ranguelov Boyko, Dragomir Gospodinov, Stefan Sheer, Elisabeth Krausman, (2008), Methodology of the Templates Development for a Joint Research Centre Tender to Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,  SENS 2007 , 0 , 232

Kandilarov A., Atakan K., Havskov J., Gospodinov D. (2009) An investigation of the significance of local site effects in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 7, 181-198, DOI 10.1007/s10518-008-9091

Ranguelov B., G. Alexiev, D.Gospodinov., (2009), Natural Hazards Cartography in Bulgaria – a European perspective. Proc. 19th Intl. Symp. Geodesy 09., Sofia, 5-6 Nov. 2009, pp. 260-266. ISBN: 978-80-87159-07

Gospodinov D., E. Marekova ,  A. Marinov, (2010), Verifying the Dependence of Fractal Coefficients on Different Spatial Distributions, AIP Conf. Proc. 1203, 731 (2010), DOI:10.1063/1.3322545

Gospodinov D., Papadimitriou E. and Karakostas V., Ranguelov B, (2009), Energy release patterns in aftershock sequences of North Aegean Sea (Greece) through stochastic modelling, Cashiers du Centre Europeen de Geodynamique et de Seimologie, Vol.28. p. 141-146, ISBN N° 9 782919 89702-5,  http://www.ecgs.lu/wp-content/ecgs_pdf/cahiers/ECGS_CB_Vol28.pdf

Gospodinov,  D., E. Marekova, A. Marinov, B. Ranguelov, G. Dimitrova, (2010), Applicability of  RETAS  stochastic model to illustrate general seismicity in Izmit region, Turkey, Proc. 6th National conference on Geophysics “20 years Assoc. of Geoph. in Bulgaria”, Sofia, December 17, 2010

Astiopoulos, A.C., Papadimitriou, E., Karakostas, V., Gospodinov, D., Drakatos, G., (2010), Seismicity changes detection during the seismic sequences evolution as evidence of stress changes, Bull. Geol. Soc. Greece, Vol. 43, pp. 1994-2003.

Gospodinov, D., G. Dimitrova (2011), Krumovo seismic sequence analysis of April, 2002, next to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, through a geographic information system (GIS), PU 'P. Hilendarski' scientific papers, vol.36, 4, 2011-Physics, p. 19-26

Gospodinov, Dragomir, Alexander Marinov, and Elisaveta Marekova (2012), Testing fractal coefficients sensitivity on real and simulated earthquake data, Acta Geophys, 60(3), 794, doi:10.2478/s11600-012-0013-0

Papadimitriou,  E., D. Gospodinov , V. Karakostas  & A. Astiopoulos (2013), Evolution of the vigorous 2006 swarm in Zakynthos (Greece) and probabilities for strong aftershocks occurrence, J Seismol, Volume 17 (2), DOI 10.1007/s10950-012-9350-3

Karakostas, V., Papadimitriou, E., Gospodinov, D. (2014),   Modeling the 2013 North Aegean (Greece) seismic sequence: geometrical and frictional constraints, and aftershock probabilities, Geophys. J. Int. (2014), doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt523


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Research topics 

 - stochastic modeling of seismicity 

 - application of marked stochastic processes to model the energy release in a seismic region

 - compiling of a database of the seismicity and the geotectonic structure of the Upper-Thracean

   depression (middle part)

 - stochastic modeling of the spatio-temporal and the magnitude distribution of earthquakes

 - examining the relations between seismicity fractal coefficients

 - macroseismic surveys after felt earthquakes in the regions of Strajica, Jambol and Plovdiv

 - H/V spectral ratio analysis of ambient noise

 - natural hazards mitigation

 


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RESEARCH abroad

 

- Guest researcher for 1 month (October, 2006) at 'Aristotle' University in Thessaloniki, Greece, Geophysical Department - Joint research with Prof. Eleftheria Papadimitiou and Prof. Vassilios Karakostas on 'Relaxation patters after strong earthquakes in Greece'

 

- Guest researcher for 1 month (November-December, 2006)  at Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Via Bassini 15, 10133 Milan, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi 

 

- Guest researcher for 6 months (September 2003-March 2004) after a NATO-CNR grant at Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica, Via Ampere 56, 10131 Milano, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi on ‘Exploring of triggering models for aftershock occurrence in time - RETAS model''

 

- Guest researcher for one month (June, 2000) at Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica, Via Ampere 56, 10131 Milano, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi on ‘Stochastic modelling of aftershock sequences'

 

- Guest researcher for two months (May, June, 1997) at Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell’Informatica, Via Ampere 56, 10131 Milano, Italy - joint research with Senior Researcher Dr. Renata Rotondi on ‘Exploratory analysis of marked point processes applied to earthquake sequences’

 

- Laboratory of statistics, Inst. of Physics of the Earth, Ac.Sci. Russia, Moscow, Russia for one  month (October 1985) under the guidance of Prof. Keilis-Borok on 'Statistical models of earthquake  clustering '

 


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Participation in scientific conferences

 

Gospodinov D., "A statistical test of seismic zones independence in   the Upper-Thracian depression." CAPG, 1984, Sofia

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov - "On some peculiarities of the seismicity and its spatial distribution for the Balkan Peninsula region". CAPG, 1984, Sofia,

Christoskov L., Ranguelov B., D. Gospodinov, "A Stochastic Model For Earthquake Prediction" International symposiym on engineering problems in seismic areas, 1986,  13-19 April, Napoli, Italy

Christoskov L., D. Gospodinov, , "Model Investigations of Earthquake Space Distribution",  XXI Assembly of ESC, 1988, 23-27 Àugust, Sofia

Gospodinov D., "Clustering Properties of Earthquake Sequences In The Balkan Region" XXII General Assembly of ESC, 1990, 17-22 September, Barcelona, Spain,

Gospodinov D.  “Subclustering Of Events in A Single Aftershock Sequence’. XXIV General Assembly of ESC, 1994, 19-24 September, Athens, Greece,

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov. Seismic activity after the earthquake of March 31, 1901 in the Shabla-Kaliakra region (Bulgaria). XXIV General Assembly of ESC, 1994,19-24 September, Athens, Greece,

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov. Tsunami energy distribution according to the Black sea geometry. XXIV Gen. Ass. of ESC, September 19-24, 1994 , Athens, Greece,

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov. "Tsunami Vulnerability Modelling For The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast" , Environment Protection Technologies for Coastal Areas, IAWO-Bulgarian National Committee, Regional Black Sea Conference, 1995, 13-15 June, Varna,

Gospodinov D. ‘Model Distribution of Magnitude Differences Between Subsequent Earthquakes’. First Congress of The Balkan Geophysical Society, 1996, 23-27 September, Athens, Greece,

Gospodinov D. "Non-random features of some aftershock sequences". General Ass. of IASPEI, September  1997, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov, S.Rizhikova, T.Toteva. Kresna seismic zone as a test site for seismic potential research, Proc. Of the XXVI General Ass. of ESC, Tel Aviv, August 23-28, (1998), Israel

Gospodinov D., Statistical test for independence. Application to the analysis of data from adjacent seismic zones in the Upper-Thracian Valley, Symposium ‘Geodinamical investigations, connected with 1928 year earthquakes in Chirpan-Plovdiv, October 9, 1998, Bulgaria

Gospodinov D., R. Rotondi.  Application of Marked  Poisson  Processes in Earthquake Sequence Analysis .  II Nation. Geophys. Conference, October 22-25, 1998, Sofia

Ranguelov B, S. Rizhikova, S.Shanov, D. Gospodinov, T. Toteva, Analysis of theseismic potential of the Kresna-Krupnic seismic zone, Proceed. of the symposium "Geodynamic studies on the 1904 strong earthquake in Kresna, 27-28 April, 1999, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Ranguelov B., D. Gospodinov, S. Rizhikova, T. Toteva. Kresna seismic zone - a test site for seismic potential research., Proc. SEE-3., Tehran, 17-19 May, 1999

Ranguelov B., A. Kies, T. Toteva, A. Vikulin, D. Gospodinov. The Belt Seismicity - A Geodynamic Expression in Kresna-Krupnik Seismogenic Zone. Second Balkan Geophysical Congress and Exhibition, July 5-9, 1999. Istanbul, Turkey

Gospodinov, D., COMPOUND POISSON PROCESS APPLIED TO AFTERSHOCKSEQUENCE MODELS, 22nd General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Birmingham, UK, 18th to 30th July 1999 (çàäî÷íî)

Ranguelov B., D.Gospodinov, S.Rizhikova, T.Toteva, (1998), Kresna seismic zone as a test site for seismic potential research, Proc. îf the XXVI General Ass. of ESC, Tel Aviv, August 23-28, Israel

Gospodinov D., B, Ranguelov, T. Toteva.  Statistical Verification of Independence           of Adjacent Seismic Areas in Kresna-Krupnik Region of SW Bulgaria. I-st International conference on Advances on Natural Hazards Mitigation, 3-4 Nov.1999, Athens, Greece

Gospodinov, D., E. Marekova, Comparative analysis of aftershock fractal properties EURESCO Conference: Natural and Anthropogenically Induced Hazards, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 24-29 June 2000

Gospodinov, D. and E. Marekova, Fractal properties analysis of some aftershock sequences, Jubilee conference 40 years Plovdiv University, November 21, 2001, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Gospodinov, D., E. Marekova,  Relations between spatial and temporal fractal coefficients  for some aftershock sequences , 3rd Balkan Geophysical Congress and Exhibition, 24-28 June, 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dimitrova, S., P.Kashchiev, D.Gospodinov, G.Lamykina,  Isometric presentation of some seismicity parameters, 3rd Balkan Geophysical Congress and Exhibition, 24-28 June, 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria

Gospodinov, D. and B. Ranguelov, Seismicity of Tundza seismic zone and possibilities for seismic hazard assessment for the town of Jambol,International Conference ‘Space-Nature-Man’, Oct. 9-11, 2002, Jambol, Bulgaria

Mareêova E. and D. Gospodinov, Some features of the seismic process in the Upper-Thracian valley, Annual. Sci. Conf. of the Ass. Sci. in Bulgaria, sec.’N.Sciences’, November 8, 2002, Plovdiv

Ranguelov B., G.Lamykina, D.Gospodinov., Classification of the damages caused by the natural disasters, Proc. Intl.Sci.Conf. “Korotkov”, Vladivostok, Russia, 2003

Ranguelov B., Dimitrova S., Gospodinov D., Spassov E., Lamykina G., Papadimitriou E., Karakostas V., Fractal properties of the south Balkans seismotectonic model for seismic hazard assessment., Proc. 5th Intl.Symposium on East. Mediterranean Geology., Tessaloniki, Greece, 2004

Gospodinov, D., Simulation of some point processes in aftershock analysis, Intern. sympos. "Science & Education", October 1-3, 2004, Jambol

Gospodinov D., Marekova E., Model studies of the energy distribution of seismic sequences in the Upper-Thracian depression, Jubilee Sci.Symp. PU "P.Hilendarski", October 29, 2004, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Karakostas, V. G., Papadimitriou, E. E., Tranos, M. D., Giannakopoulou, E. S., Vedouzi, Ch. A., Spiridopoulou, M., Ranguelov, B., Gospodinov, D. and Dimitrova, S., Seismotechtonic properties of SW Bulgaria, IV National Geoph.Confer.Intern.Partic. Sofia, 4 - 5 October 2004

Gospodinov, D., R. Rotondi,Stochastic analysis of triggered seismicity in Kresna (Bulgaria, 1904) and in Umbria-Marche (Italy, 1997)  region, XXIX General Assembly of the ESC Potsdam, September 12-17, 2004

Ranguelov, B., V. Karakostas, D. Gospodinov, Seismic hazard assessment in South Balkan area, Workshop on Bulgarian-Greek S&T Cooperation 2002-2005, April 4, 2005, Sofia

Gospodinov, D., V. Karakostas, R. Papadimitriou, Stochastic modelling of the relaxation process after the M=9.0 Sumatra earthquake of  December 26, 2004; preliminary analysis, 4th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, 9-12 October 2005, Bucharest, Romania

Gospodinov, D., B. Ranguelov, E. Papadimitriou, V. Karakostas, Statistical methods to analyze seismicity interaction in neighbor zones; application to simulated data, 80-years Anniv.Intern. Sci. Conference on Geology, Sofia, November 17-18, 2005

Gospodinov, D., R. Rotondi, RETAS: a restricted ETAS model inspired by Bath's law, 4th International Workshop on Statistical Seismology (Statsei4), Shonan Village campus, Kanagawa Prefecture, 9 - 13 January, 2006, Japan

Karaksotas V., Papadimitriou E., Gospodinov D., Ranguelov B.,  Slip distribution for the 1928 Chirpan and Plovdiv main shocks. Intl.Conf. SGEM 2006, Albena, 12-16 June.

Gospodinov, D., E. Marekova,  A. Marinov , RETAS STOCHASTIC MODEL TO STUDY AFTERSHOCK RATE DECAY OF THE DENALI FAULT M7.9 EARTHQUAKE, NOVEMBER 3, 2002, 6th General International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union (BPU-6), August 22-26, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey

Gospodinov, D., A COMPOUND POISSON PROCESS TO MODEL AFTERSHOCK ENERGY RELEASE OF THE DENALI FAULT M7.9 EARTHQUAKE, NOVEMBER 3, 2002, 6th General International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union (BPU-6), August 22-26, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey (zadochno)

Papadimitriou, E., V. Karakostas, M. Tranos, B. Ranguelov, D. Gospodinov, STATIC STRESS CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE OCCURRENCE OF STRONG EARTHQUAKES IN BULGARIA AND NORTHERN GREECE, First Europ. Conf. EES, (1ECEES), Geneva, 3-8th Sept., 2006

Ranguelov, B., S. Sheer, E. Krausman, G. Alexiev, D. Gospodinov, M. Nikolova, Methodology of creation the templates for a EU JRC tender to BAS, SENS 2007, Scient. Conf. Internat. Particip.'SPACE, ECOLOGY, NANOTECHNOLOGY, SAFETY, 27-28 June, 2007, Varna, Bulgaria

Ranguelov, B., S, Dimitrova, D. Gospodinov, G. Alexiev, G. Mardirosyan, Natural hazards and the environmentally disturbed region of the 'Maritza-Iztok' open coal Mines, Bulgaria, Intern. Confer. On 'Protection of Natural Disaster Disturbed Areas', November 22-24, 2007, Slovakia, pp 15-22

Marekova E., Ranguelov B., Gospodinov D., Statistical Investigations of earthquake sequences on different regions of the world., Nat.Conf. "Geosciences’07", December 13-14, 2007, Sofia

Gospodinov D., Ranguelov B., Karakosttas V., Papadimitriou E., Tanev A.and Kandilarov A., Preliminary results on the implementration of the H/V spectral ratio technique on ambient vibrations in the town of Jambol., Nat.Conf. Geosciences’07., December 13-14, 2007, Sofia

Gospodinov D., Karakostas V., Papadimitriou E., Ranguelov B., ANALYSIS OF RELAXATION TEMPORAL PATTERNS IN GREECE THROUGH THE RETAS MODEL APPROACH, Seismicity Patterns in the Euro-Med Region, 27th ECGS Workshop, Luxembourg City, 17-19 November, 2008

Gospodinov D., 31st Course of the International School of Geophysics International Workshop on Real Time Seismology: Rapid Characterization of the Earthquake Source and of its Effects (EMFCSC, Erice, Sicily, 2 - 8 May, 2009)

Ranguelov B., Alexiev G., Gospodinov D., Sheer S., 2009, NATURAL HAZARDS AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN BULGARIA., Intl. Conf. SUB, V.Turnovo, 17 Oct. 2009

Gospodinov D., E. Marekova ,  A. Marinov, (2009), Verifying the Dependence of Fractal Coefficients on Different Spatial Distributions, 7th BPU General Conference, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 9-13 Sept 2009

Ranguelov, B. and D. Gospodinov, 2009, Possible multihazard events (tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides) expected on the North Bulgarian Black sea coast, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-0, 2009 EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009

Ranguelov, B. , S. Scheer, D. Gospodinov, and G. Mardirosjan. 2009., Vulnerability categorization of natural and man-made structures subjected to tsunami hazard for the Bulgarian Black Sea coast., NH10.14 - EGU2009-132, EGU2009 – Gen. Assembly, 19-24 April, 2009, Vienna. (on flash)

Astiopoulos, A.C., Papadimitriou, E., Karakostas, V., Gospodinov, D., Drakatos, G., Seismicity changes detection during the seismic sequences evolution as evidence of stress changes, 12th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece, May 19-20, 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece

Gospodinov,  D., Applicability of the restricted epidemic type aftershock sequence (RETAS) model to describe general seismicity in the area of the Izmit M7.4 earthquake of August 1999, INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION “NATURAL CATACLYSMS AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN CIVILIZATION” GEOCATACLYSM - 2011, 19-21 September, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey

Gospodinov, D., G. Dimitrova (2011), Krumovo seismic sequence analysis of April, 2002, next to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, through a geographic information system (GIS), 50 y PU 'P. Hilendarski' conference physics, October, 21-22, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Karakostas, V., Papadimitriou, E., Gospodinov, D., Modeling the 2013 North Aegean (Greece) seismic sequence, IAHS/IAPSO/IASPEI Joint Assembly in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2013


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Participation in research projects

 

1993-1995,  International project GITEC (Genesis & Impact of Tsunami on European Coast) Project with EC - No 925067 (PECO)

 

1995-1997,  National project – 'Tsunami risk assessment for the Bulgarian Black Sea coast'

 

1995-1997,  International project with IGF – NANU on 'Seismicity of Black Sea'.

 

1997-1999,  ASPELEA (Assessment of Seismic Potential of European Large Earthquake Areas) project with EU (ÑÒ970200)

 

1999-2000,  Intl. Project with the Luxembourg University on Geodynamics of Kresna-Kroupnik region and Rn as indicator (leader)

 

2000-2001,  Contract with MON on 'Seismological Investigations in Antarctica'

 

2001-2002, National project with Plovdiv University "P.Hilendarski" 01-Ô-10 on 'Geophysical database for the 1928 strong earthquakes in the Upper-Thracean depression'

 

2003, Project of the Bulgar.Ac.Sci. on 'Statistical Studies and assessments of seismological phenomena'

 

2002-2004,  Project with TIG-DVO, RAN-Russia “Seismotectonics and properties of the strong earthquake sources”

 

2003-2004,  Project NZ-1209/02 (bilateral BG-Greece (“Aristotle University”)-Bulgaria (GFI) cooperation) on “Seismic hazard assessment for the South Balkans”

 

2005 - Site effect assessment using H/V spectral ratio and Standard Spectral Ratio methods in the 'Old Town' area of Plovdiv city - Bulgaria, project with Institute of Solid Earth Physics - University of Bergen, Norway,        (coodinator)

 

2006 - SÑHEMA - Scenarios for Hazard-induced Emergencies Management., Ref. Nr BG 2005/017-353.10.06. 030963. Sixth Framework Programme EC, http://www.schemaproject.org/

 

2006 - Analysis of the tectonic and the seismicity of strong earthquakes focal zones; TIG-DVO, RAN-Russia

 

2006 - Risk analysis by MAHB and NEDIES - action 4332 of EC-DG-JRC

 

2006 - Geodynamical phenomena and processes in highly-movable areas of the Earth crust (GFI-BAS)

 

2005 - 2006, Project BG-9/2005 (bilateral BG-Greece (“Aristotle University”)-Bulgaria (GFI) cooperation) on “Seismogenesis and interactions between earthquake sources in the Southern Balkans” (coodinator)

 

2006 - 2007, Project BG-9/2005 (bilateral BG-Greece (“Aristotle University”)-Bulgaria (GFI) cooperation) on “Seismogenesis and interactions between earthquake sources in the Southern Balkans” (coordinator)

 

2007 - Contract No 252334 ñ Joint Research Center (JRC), Identification and collection of implementation-oriented technological and organizational practices and measures for the reduction of natural disasters risk” 

 

 2009 - 2010, ÐÑ09-ÔÔ-011/15.04.2009, Plovdiv University "Paisiy Hilendarski", "Analysis of seismic hazard elements by stochastic modeling and ambient noise processing" (coordinator)

 

2009 -2014, Contract after ERAZMUS: Bulgarian-Greek cooperation between  Plovdiv University "Paisiy Hilendarski" and “Aristotle" University, Thessaloniki, Grece,  (coordinator)

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Teaching activity

 

2006 - present - regular lectures on 'Introduction to Geophysics' and 'Introduction to Seismology' at Plovdiv

            University 'Paisij Hilendarski'

 

2008 - present - regular lectures on 'Mechanics' and 'Molecular Physics' at Plovdiv

            University 'Paisij Hilendarski'

 

 2006 - course in 'Introduction in Mineralogy and Types of Rocks' at Agro-University, Plovdiv

 

 2000 - 2009 - regular lectures on mathematics for the students at the ecology department of the New

Bulgarian University (NBU) in Sofia and Plovdiv

 

1995 - 1998 - regular lectures on 'Initial computer literacy' for the students at the Trakia university in Jambol

 

1982 - 1999 - regular educational lectures at secondary schools on earthquake mechanism,

seismic hazard, earth crust structure etc.

 

The activities at the universities include lecturing, tutorials, students examinations etc.

 


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Published abstracts 

 

Gospodinov D. ‘Model Distribution of Magnitude Differences Between Subsequent Earthquakes’. First Congress of The Balkan Geophysical Society, 1996, 23-27 September, Athens, Greece,

Gospodinov D. "Non-random features of some aftershock sequences". General Ass. of IASPEI, September  1997, Thessaloniki, Greece

Gospodinov D., R. Rotondi.  Application of Marked  Poisson  Processes in Earthquake Sequence Analysis .  II Nation. Geophys. Conference, October 22-25, 1998, Sofia

Gospodinov, D., COMPOUND POISSON PROCESS APPLIED TO AFTERSHOCKSEQUENCE MODELS, 22nd General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Birmingham, UK, 18th to 30th July 1999

Gospodinov D., B, Ranguelov, T. Toteva.  Statistical Verification of Independence of Adjacent Seismic Areas in Kresna-Krupnik Region of SW Bulgaria. I-st International conference on Advances on Natural Hazards Mitigation, 3-4 Nov.1999, Athens, Greece

Gospodinov, D., E. Marekova, Comparative analysis of aftershock fractal properties EURESCO Conference: Natural and Anthropogenically Induced Hazards, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 24-29 June 2000

Gospodinov, D., E. Marekova,  Relations between spatial and temporal fractal coefficients for some aftershock sequences , 3rd Balkan Geophysical Congress and Exhibition, 24-28 June, 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dimitrova, S., P.Kashchiev, D.Gospodinov, G.Lamykina,  Isometric presentation of some seismicity parameters, 3rd Balkan Geophysical Congress and Exhibition,24-28 June, 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria

RANGUELOV B. and D. Gospodinov. 2009., Possible multihazard events (tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides) expected on the North Bulgarian Black sea coast., NH6.1- EGU2009-133, EGU2009 – Gen. Assembly, 19-24 April, 2009, Vienna. (poster) (on flash)

RANGUELOV B. , S. Scheer, D. Gospodinov, and G. Mardirosjan. 2009., Vulnerability categorization of natural and man-made structures subjected to tsunami hazard for the Bulgarian Black Sea coast., NH10.14 - EGU2009-132, EGU2009 – Gen. Assembly, 19-24 April, 2009, Vienna. (on flash)

Ranguelov B., Alexiev G., Gospodinov D., Sheer S., 2009, NATURAL HAZARDS AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN BULGARIA., Intl. Conf. SUB, V.Turnovo, 17 Oct. 2009. (in press)

Ranguelov, B. and D. Gospodinov, 2009, Possible multihazard events (tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides) expected on the North Bulgarian Black sea coast, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-0, 2009 EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009

Gospodinov, D., Fajtin, H., Rangelov, B., Marekova, E. Some statistical features of the aftershock temporal behavior after the M7.4 Izmit earthquake of august 17, 1999 in Turkey,  EGU General Assembly 2009, held 19-24 April, 2009 in Vienna, Austria

 

 

 

 

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