Background
Yankov, Rossen Angelov was born on August 11, 1949 in Archar, Montana, Bulgaria. Soon after his birth, he moved to the town of Rousse, Bulgaria, where he graduated from the High School of Mathematics. Dr. Rossen Yankov holds a BSc degree in Solid State Physics (State Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg, Russia/ University of Sofia, Bulgaria), and a PhD degree in Applied Physics (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia/University of Surrey, England). He is presently Senior Research Scientist at one of the Europe's most prestigious Ion-Beam Centers, at the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany. Dr. R. Yankov has worked consecutively at the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria, the Institute of Eelectronics, and the Institute of Solid State Physics of the BAS. In the early 80's he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Surrey, UK, as a recipient of a grant from the International Atomic Energy Agency. After his fellowship, he made regular visits to Surrey University as part of his PhD program. Throughout his professional career he has worked as a research scientist at HZDR in Dresden, Germany, an academic visitor at SiWEDS (Silicon Wafer Engineering and Defect Science) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, and a visiting Professor in Materials Science and Engineering in the same department. He has also worked in the R&D departments of two startup high-tech companies in Germany. Dr. R. Yankov has co-authored over 130 publications in refereed journals. He also is a co-author of 11 patents, and has been a member of the organizing committee of more than 20 international conferences. Dr. R. Yankov has actively served as a reviewer for a number of technical journals. His research activities have been partly reflected in the many invited lectures he has made, particularly in the USA (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, and Varian Semiconductor Equipment, Gloucester, MA) as well as at numerous international conferences. In the last 15 years, Dr. R. Yankov has been particularly associated with the development of oxidation protection coatings for Ti, low-Al-content Ti-base alloys, and TiAl intermetallics for high-temperature aerospace, power generation and automotive applications, in collaboration with partners form both academia and industry.
