Lyubomir Ivanov

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Lyubomir Ivanov
Lyubomir Ivanov

Lyubomir Ivanov (Bulgarian: Любомир Иванов, born October 7, 1952 in Sofia) is a scientist, non-governmental activist, and Antarctic explorer. He is a graduate of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia with M.S. degree in Mathematics in 1977, and earned his Ph.D. from Sofia University in 1980 under the direction of Dimiter Skordev, with a dissertation entitled Iterative Operative Spaces.

Head of the Department of Mathematical Logic at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1990. Founding member (1991) and chairman since 2001 of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria. Founding president of the Manfred Wörner Foundation since 1994. Member of the Streit Council, Washington, DC since 2006. Member, Interministerial Working Group on Antarctica since 2002. Chairman, Antarctic Place-names Commission since 1994.

Former MP, chairman of the Green Party parliamentary faction in the VII Grand National Assembly, and co-author of the new Bulgarian Constitution in 1990-91. Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Ministry in 1991-92. Sponsor of the 1990 parliamentary decision for Bulgaria to join the European Union, and the 1991 parliamentary decision for Bulgaria to participate in the Allied liberation of Kuwait.

Participant in the National Round Table for transition to democracy, and member of the coordinating council of the Union of Democratic Forces in 1990-91. Co-founder of Wilderness Fund - Bulgaria, and Green Party of Bulgaria in 1989. Individual campaign against winter Olympics on Mount Vitosha in 1985-88.

Publications in mathematics and informatics, foreign and security policy, immigration policy, toponymics, and linguistics. Author of the Streamlined System, adopted as the official national system for the Romanization of Bulgarian. Author of the proposed Basic Roman orthography and Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English. Topographic surveys in four Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions during the austral summers of 1994/95, 1995/96, 2002/03, and 2004/05. Author of the first Bulgarian topographic map of Livingston Island, Antarctica.

Winner of the 1987 Nikola Obreshkov Prize — Bulgaria’s highest award for achievements in mathematics — awarded for his book Algebraic Recursion Theory published in England in 1986.

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