Professor Kostadin Grozev Kostadinov (Bulgarian: ''Костадин Грозев Костадинов'') is a professor of robotics at the

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (abbreviated BAS; bg, Българска академия на науките, ''Balgarska akademiya na naukite'', abbreviated ''БАН'') is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy ...

and former Deputy Minister for Education in Bulgaria.

Biography

Kostadin Kostadinov was born on 27th November 1955 in

Svilengrad Svilengrad ( bg, Свиленград; el, Σβίλενγκραντ; ota, Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) is a town in Haskovo Province, south-central Bulgaria, situated at the border of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. It is the administrative centre of the h ...

, Bulgaria. He acquired a Master’s degree in both

Electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and in Robotics at the Technical University of Sofia in the period 1976 – 1983. In 1994 he finished his PhD in Applied mechanics at the

(BAS). He has since participated in many scientific forums across Europe. He became a full-time professor at BAS in 2008 and currently works at its Institute of Mechanics.

Political career

After the collapse of communism in Bulgaria, professor Kostadinov became co-founder of a political party in 1990, called ''Conservative Party in Bulgaria'' (Bulgarian: ''Консервативна партия в България''). The party did not survive the next decade and in 2006 Kostadinov participated in the foundation of GERB – a political party which would go on to win successive parliamentary elections from 2009 onward. Kostadinov became advisor to Minister of Education

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(GERB) in August 2009 and held this position till January the following year. From November 2014 till March 2016 Kostadin Kostadinov was Deputy Minister for Education in the second cabinet of Prime-Minister Boyko Borissov. He was part of the team of Minister of Education

Todor Tanev Todor Aleksandrov Tanev (Bulgarian: Тодор Александров Танев; born 30 October 1957), is a Bulgarian political scientist and sociologist, who served as the Minister of Education and Science as part of the Second Borisov Govern ...

, who was a member of the Reformist Bloc – a constituent party of the then-ruling coalition, led by GERB. After GERB formed their third government in 2017, Kostadinov again became advisor to the Minister of Education,

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(GERB).

Notable works

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References

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