Corresponding member Evelina Slavcheva from the Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems is the new president of the Bulgarian Academy of the sciences. This is the first female president of the institution.
Slavcheva received 81 votes of support from the members of the General Assembly. The other candidate for the post of Acad. Hristo Naydenski from the Institute of Microbiology received 19 votes of support.
The new chairman of the BAS indicated what her priorities will be in her work:
"The priorities are not few, but what I would like to achieve is an even greater integrity of the Academy and all its institutes, so that we are truly one community, one big team with all its diversity in the service of knowledge and the Bulgarian state and society".
The mandate of the president of the BAS is 4 years.
The second term of the current chairman of the BAS, Acad. Julian Revalski expires on December 7.