Tautomerism – Methods and Theories

Liudmil Antonov is a Professor of Analytical and Physical Organic Chemistry at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Having obtained MSc (1989) and PhD (1994) degree from University of Sofia, he spent 1 year at Tokyo Institute of Technology before taking an appointment at University of Forestry (UF) in Sofia. In 1998 he was appointed as youngest in Bulgaria Associated Professor in Analytical Chemistry and from 1999 to 2002 headed the Department of Chemistry UF. After stays at AIST (Japan, 2002, 2006) as JSPS Fellow and at Humboldt University of Berlin (2003-2004) as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and work for European Commission as reviewer and panel member (Directorate General for Research, 2001-2005) he joined Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2007. He has authored 83 research papers in the fields of tautomerism, dye chemistry, new materials, chemometrics, and instrumental analysis, cited over 1200 times.