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Occupations: Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Office Address: Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions,
Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
72 Tzarigradsko Shaussee,
1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Birth Place: Moscow
Citizenship: Bulgarian
Marital Status: married

Professional Data

Education

The University of Connecticut, Ph.D in Theoretical Physics, September 1999.

Sofia University, Master of Science (Physics), August 1992.

Positions

03/2010-Present     Associate Professor-Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria.

02/2007-03/2010    Assistant Professor-Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

08/2006-02/2007   Resarcher - Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria.

10/2004 -07/2006   Research Physicist (DR-II), Air Force Research Laboratory and Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico, USA

5/2004 -10/2004    Senior Research Scientist,  Center for High Technology Materials  at the University of New Mexico and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 

5/2001 – 5/2004    National Research Council Fellow, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

1/2000 – 5/2001     Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of New Mexico, Department of Physics and Astronomy:

9/1992 – 4/1999    Research Assistant, The University of Connecticut, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Scientific Projects

Leader/Principal Investigator/Leader from Bulgaria in Bilateral Projects

1. Theoretical modeling of ultrashort laser pulse interaction with dielectric and semiconductor materials

    European Office of Aerospace Research and Development for 2008-2010

    Final report - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a525581.pdf

 

2. Interaction of intense laser radiation with materials: excited carrier spatio-temporal coherent and incoherent dynamics

 

    European Office of Aerospace Research and Development for 2012-2013

 

3. Experimental and theoretical investigation of the microscopicin laser ablation of metals, semiconductors and dielectrics

 

    Department of Quantum Radiophysics, P.N. Lebedev Physical Insitute, Russian Academy of Sciences 2009-2011

 

4. Nanostructuring of the surfaces of semiconductors and dielectrics with ultrashort laser pulses

 

    Department of Quantum Radiophysics, P.N. Lebedev Physical Insitute, Russian Academy of Sciences 2012-2015

 

5. COST Action MP1208 Developing the Physics and the Scientific Community for Inertial Confinement Fusion at the Time of NIF ignition

    a) http://www.cost.eu/

    b) http://laserfusion.eu/

 

Member of the management committee and participant in the action, Co-chairman of the Secondary Sources of Particles and Radiation and Materials Working group

Organizer of Multi-scale modelling of matter under extreme irradiation CECAM Workshop, University College Dublin, Ireland, June 17, 2015 - June 19, 2015 http://www.cecam.org/workshops.html

 

Participant

 

1. Electron beam annealing of implantation defects in Si-SiO2heterostructures

    Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 2009

2. Modification of ion implantation defects in the structures of Si-SiO2 with high-energy electrons

     Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna,2010

3. Increase in the radiation resistance of semiconductor heterostructures by cyclic processing

     Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna,2011

4. Study of interaction of MeVelectron irradiationwithsilicon nanostructures embedded in silicon dioxide

      Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 2013-2015

5. Development and characterization of nano-structured materials under extreme conditions in power generation systems

    Institute of Nuclear Fusion, Polytechnic University, Madrid- 2012-2015

 

Member of the Laser Working Group of the ELI-Nuclear European Project since February 2010

http://www.eli-np.ro/

Awards

US National Research Council award ( 2001-2004)

 

VS Directorate of the AFRL Award for Best Paper of the Year:  Team (2002)

 

VS Directorate of the AFRL Award for Best Paper of the Year:  Team (2004)

Languages

Bulgarian, English, Russian

Societies

Interests

Scientific Works

Books

Thesis

Ph. D Thesis: Modeling of Laser-Induced Damage in Dielectrics with Subpicosecond Pulse, University of Connecticut, defended 1999

Papers

[1] T. Apostolova, Hahn Y. “Modeling of Laser-Induced Breakdown in Dielectrics with Subpicosecond Pulses”, Journal of Applied Physics, 88, (1024), 2000. 

[2] T. Apostolova, Hahn Y. “Modeling of Laser-Induced Breakdown in Dielectrics with Subpicosecond Pulses”, Proceedings of SPIE, 4347, (255) 2001. 

[3] T. Apostolova, Huang D, Alsing P., McIver J., Cardimona D.A., “Effect of Laser-Induced Antidiffusion on Excited Conduction Electron dynamics in Bulk Semiconductors”, Physical Review B, 66, (075208), 2002. 

 [4] T. Apostolova, Huang D, Alsing P., McIver J., Cardimona D.A., “Effect of Laser-Induced Antidiffusion on Phonon-Assisted Electron Transitions in Semiconductor Fokker-Planck Equation”, Proceedings of SPIE, 4679, (124) 2002. 

 [5] T. Apostolova, Huang D, Cardimona D.A., “Photon-absorption-induced intersubband optical-phonon scattering of electrons in quantum wells,” Physical Review B, 67, (205323), 2003. 

[6] Alsing P., Huang D., Cardimona D.A., T. Apostolova ,  “Interplay between Coulomb interaction and quantum interference in three-level resonant asymmetric double quantum wells,” Physical Review A, 68, (033804), 2003. 

 [7] T. Apostolova, Huang D, Cardimona D.A., “Phonon-assisted normal incidence intersubband absorption in semiconductor quantum wells,” Infrared Physics and Technology, 44, (465), 2003. 

[8] Huang D, T. Apostolova, Alsing P., Cardimona D.A., “High-field transport of electrons and radiative effects using coupled force-balance and Fokker-Planck equations beyond relaxation-time approximation,” Physical Review B, 69, (75214), 2004. 

[9] Huang D.H, T. Apostolova, Alsing PM, Cardimona DA, “Theoretical study of laser cooling of a semiconductor”, Physical Review B, 70, (033203), 2004. 

[10] T. Apostolova , Huang Danhong, Alsing PM, Cardimona DA, “Laser cooling of a semiconductor using three-photon excitation.”, Proceedings of SPIE, 5543, (41), 2004. 

[11] Huang DH, Alsing PM, T. Apostolova , Cardimona DA, “Effect of photon-assisted absorption on the thermodynamics of hot electrons interacting with an intense optical field in bulk GaAs.”, Physical Review B, 71, (045204), 2005. 

[12] T. Apostolova, Huang DH, Alsing PM, Cardimona DA, “Comparison of laser cooling of the lattice of wide-band-gap semiconductors using nonlinear or linear optical excitations.”, Physical Review A, 71, (013810), 2005. 

[13] Huang DH, Alsing PM, T. Apostolova, Cardimona DA, “Coupled energy-drift and force-balance equations for high-field hot-carrier transport.”  Physical Review B, 71, (195205), 2005. 

[14] Huang D, T. Apostolova , Alsing PM, Cardimona DA, “Thermal-drag carrier cooling in undoped semiconductors”, Journal of Applied Physics, 98, (1), 2005. 

[15] Huang DH, T. Apostolova, Alsing PM, Cardimona DA, “Inhomogeneous laser cooling of AlGaAs/GaAs semiconductor quantum well and lattice thermal diffusion”, Infrared Physics and Technology, 47 (206), 2005. 

[16] Huang D, T. Apostolova, Alsing PM, Cardimona DA, “Spatially selective laser cooling of carriers in semiconductor quantum wells.”, Physical Review B, 72, (195308), 2005. 

[17] T. Apostolova , et al “Advanced Sensor Components for Space-Based Surveillance and Situational Awareness”, Proceedings of SET-094 NATO Symposium on “Emerging Electro-Optic Phenomenology”, 2005.

[18] Cardimona, D A; Huang, D H; Le, D T; T. Apostolova , Alsing, P M; Glass, W; Castillo, C D “New optical detector concepts for space applications” Proc. SPIE. Vol. SPIE-5897, pp. 156-163. 2005. 

[19] Huang, D. H. Cardimona, D. A.; T. Apostolova , Alsing, P. M. ; Glass, W. ; Castillo, C. D “Innovative Concepts for SSA Applications”,  Proceedings of Space Sensing and Situational Awareness NATO Specialist Meeting, 2006. 

[20] T. Apostolova, “Theoretical study of sub-to-pico laser pulse interaction with dielectrics, semiconductors and semiconductor heterostructures”, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser, 113, 012045, (2008). 

[21] T. Apostolova , “Theoretical description of ultra-short laser pulse interaction with materials and potentials for nanostructuring”, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8, 44, (2008). 

[22] Petrov P, T. Apostolova, “Investigation of the process efficiency in CO2 laser welding of low alloyed steels”, Proc.  SPIE, 7131, 713125-1, (2009). 

[23] T. Apostolova, P. Petrov, “Microscopic modeling of short pulse laser melting of materials”, Proc.  SPIE, 7131, 713126-1, (2009). 

[24] T. Apostolova, “Nonlocal Electron Dynamics in the Presence of Pulsed laser Irradiation”, Nuclear Theory, Vol. 28, (2009), pp. 215-222. 

[25] T. Apostolova , T. Troev, “Application of the Fokker Planck approach for modelling of nano-structural defects in fusion materials”, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.207 012034, (2010). 

[26] Kaschieva S., Gushterov A., T. Apostolova, Dmitriev S.N., Nanoclusters in SiO2 of ion implanted Si-SiO2 structures generated by MeV electron irradiation”, Proc. of the VI International Conference, “Beam Technologies and Laser Application”, (2010), p. 75. 

[27] T. Apostolova, Kudryashov, S., Ionin A. “Nonlocal Conduction Electron dynamics of femtosecond laser-excited semiconductor materials”, Proc. of the VI International Conference “Beam Technologies and Laser Application”, Russia, Saint-Petersburg (2010), p. 70. 

[28] T. Apostolova, “Quantum Kinetic Approach for Spatio-Temporal Carrier Dynamics in Femtosecond-Laser Irradiated MaterialsNuclear Theory, Vol. 29, eds. A. Georgieva, N. Minkov, (2010). 

[29] T. Apostolova, A. Ionin, S. Kudryashov, L.  Seleznev, and D. Sinitsyn, “Carrier dynamics-induced transient photoexcitation and energy deposition in femtosecond-laser irradiated GaAs, Proc. SPIE 7751, 77511J (2010). 

[30] T. Apostolova, “Non-local quantum-kinetic equation for laser-excited semiconductors”, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.223 012036, (2010). 

[31] T. Apostolova, “Spatio-Temporal Carrier Dynamics in Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Irradiated Materials", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 653, Issue 1, pp. 72-75. (2011). 

[32] T. Apostolova, M.V. Ivanov, C. Kozhuharov, “Modeling of Electronic Excitation and Dynamics in Swift Heavy Ion Irradiated Semiconductors”, Nuclear Theory, eds. A. Georgieva, N. Minkov, Vol. 30, pp. 225-239 (2011). 

[33] T. Apostolova, A.A. Ionin, S.I. Kudryashov, L.V. Seleznev, D.V. Sinitsyn, “Self-Limited Ionization of GaAs at High Femtosecond Laser Intensities”, AIP Conf. Proc. 1464, pp. 146-157, 2012. 

[34] T. Apostolova, A.A. Ionin, S.I. Kudryashov, L.V. Seleznev, D.V. Sinitsyn, “Self-Limited Ionization in bandgap renormalised GaAs at High Femtosecond Laser Intensities”, Optical Engineering 51(12), 121808, 2012. 

[35] C. Gonzalez-Santander, T. Apostolova and F. Dominguez-Adame, “Binding energy of hydrogenic impurities in quantum dots under intense laser radiation”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 25 (33), 335802, 2013. 

[36] A.A. Ionin, S.I. Kudryashov, L.V. Seleznev, D.V. Sinitsyn T. Apostolova, UV femtosecond laser photoexcitation and nanostructuring of silica surface”, Journal of Optical Technology, 81, 262-269, 2014. 

[37] T. Apostolova, J.M. Perlado, A. Rivera, “Femtosecond laser irradiation induced-high electronic excitation in bandgap materials: a quantum-kinetic model based on Boltzmann equation”, Nuclear  Instruments and  Methods B, 2015. 

[38] P. Danilov, A. A. Ionin, S. I. Kudryashov, A. Rudenko, L. V. Seleznev, V. Yurovskikh, D. Zayarny, P. Saltuganov and T. Apostolova, “Silicon as virtual plasmonic material : acquisition of its transient optical constants and ultrafast surface plasmon-polaritonic excitation”, ZhETF, Vol. 147 , No. 5 , 2015. 

[39] T. Apostolova, P. Detistov, M. V. Ivanov, Y. Orieult, J. M. Perlado, A. Rivera: Simulation of Ultra-Intense Laser Irradiation Induced High Electronic Excitation of Bandgap Materials”, Nuclear Theory, eds. A. Georgieva, N. Minkov , Vol. 33, pp. 215 (2015); http://ntl.inrne.bas.bg/workshop/2014/proc.html

 

 

 

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