— In Net Empire’s office, Sofia, October 2007
Stanislav P. Abadjiev
Dr, FRES; entomologist; IT specialist (Mac); web programmer (CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, XHTML, XML); photographer; editor and journalist; studies on butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Central and South America; favourite quote: ‘We are born naked, wet and hungry... then things get worse...’
Born
16 March 1964, Kyustendil, Bulgaria
Marital status
Married Ekaterina Abadjieva, nee Krusteva (1982); two children — Anastasiya (born 1983) and Peter (born 1985)
Education and academic qualifications
— FRES: Royal Entomological Society, London (6 December 2000)
— Dr (Entomology) (1996—1999): Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, an official decision of the Higher Certifying Commission (Republic of Bulgaria, Council of Ministers) — 6 July 1999, Diploma No. 26332 (13 September 1999)
— MSc (Entomology) (1984—1991): Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, Diploma No. 116884 (10 June 1992)
— Secondary education (1979—1982): Regional Secondary School of Mathematics, Kyustendil, Diploma No. 003729 (30 June 1982)
Academic rank [inactive]
Associate Professor (Entomology), an official decision No. 4 of the Higher Certifying Commission (Republic of Bulgaria, Council of Ministers) — 20 February 2001, Diploma No. 20602 (7 May 2001)
Affiliation
— Lepidopterists’ Society (1993—1998, 2001—)
— Royal Entomological Society, London (2000—)
Employments and positions held
— 2007— editor and journalist — Science Centric, Lepidopterology; Net Empire: web development (1 February 2007—)
— 2001—2007 Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Associate Professor (1 March 2001—2 March 2007)
— 1995—2001 Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: biologist (10 April 1995—28 February 2001)
— 1992—1994 Veren Publishers, Sofia: computer operator (desktop publishing systems) (1 May 1992—31 August 1994)
Honours | Awards | Grants
— 2006 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs (The Netherlands) Grant for a project implementation “Prime Butterfly Areas: a tool for nature conservation in Bulgaria”
— 2004 — Royal Society Grant for an appointment at The Natural History Museum, London
— 2004 — Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor Award for an appointment at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC
— 2004 — Royal Entomological Society Grant (Outreach Fund)
— 2004 — Featured in Science Magazine
— 2003 — EU Grant (COLPARSYST) (IHP Programme) for 4 week access to the collections and library of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
— 2001 — EU Grant (SYS-RESOURCE) (IHP Programme) for 5 week access to the Entomology Department and Libraries of The Natural History Museum, London
Current projects
— A revision of the Neotropical genus Leodonta (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
— Types of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
— Genus- and species-group names of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
— Nomenclature, taxonomy and systematics of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
Research abroad
— 10 January — 8 February 2005: at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, revision of the genus Leodonta and cataloguing types of Neotropical Pierinae
— 11 October — 10 December 2004: at the Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum (BMNH), London in cataloguing types of Neotropical Pierinae
— 6—31 October 2003: at Laboratoire d’Entomologie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris in cataloguing type specimens of Balkan butterflies and certain genera of Neotropical Pieridae
— 21—23 May 2003: at the State Museum of Natural History (Museum am Löwentor), Stuttgart studying Neotropical Pierinae (during the GART-GloBIS conference/workshop on ‘Building a global butterfly information system on the Internet — issues and challenges’)
— 12 November — 14 December 2001: at the Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum (BMNH), London in cataloguing type specimens of Balkan butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea & Papilionoidea)
— Publication list