Career
He is also a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Professor Vladko Panayotov was educated in Moscow and Sofia, and holds a Doctor of Philosophy His areas of study include mineral processing and chemical cybernetics. In 1975 he worked as an Engineer at the Central Institute on Complex Automatics in Sofia.
Between 1975 and 1977 he carried out regular military service.
Panayotov created an environmentally friendly technology which extracts non-ferrous metals from industrial waste (including copper, nickel and aluminium. This technology avoids the use of cyanides, acids and over non-environmentally friendly materials and reduces the amount of industrial waste produced.
