University Studies and Career

• 1978-1979, German Language and Literature at University Paris-Sorbonne
• 1979, Philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin
• 1979-1984 Philosophy at Sofia University, Second Speciality French Language
• 1984, M.A. in Philosophy & M.A. in French Language
• PhD 1989, Thesis on "Existentialism and Personalism: Two Forms of the anthropological Approach in Contemporary French Philosophy" (in Bulgarian)
• 1984-89, Assistant Professor in French (Translation of Philophy & Psychology Texts) at the Department of Foreign Languages, Sofia University
• 1989-95, Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IPR-BAS)
• 1995, Habilitation in Contemporary Western Philosophy (IPR-BAS) with books on Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
• 1995 to present, Professor, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Fellowships

• 1996 Paul Celan Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna
• 1997 Exchange Programm Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of Vienna University
• 1998-1999 Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  

Administrative Duties

• 2000 to present, Head of the Department for Contemporary European Philosophy and Gender Studies (IPR-BAS)
• 1999- to present, Director of the Institute for Axiological Research, Vienna
• 1995-1997, Scientific Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research (IPR-BAS)
• 1990 to present, President of the Bulgarian Society for Francophone Philosophy and Culture
• 1993-1998, President of the Association for Human and Axiological Studies "Arcanum", Sofia
• 1995 to present, Deputy Governor at the American Biographical Institute Research Association
• 1995 to present, Head of the Bulgarian Phenomenology Center (IPR-BAS)

Expert Functons

• 2006 to present: Sicientific Correspondent of the Ricoeur Foundation
• 2008 to present: Expert at the Austrian Journalist Congress
  
• 1996 to present: Honorary Advisor on the Research Board of Advisors, International Division - ABI (1996)
• 1996 to present: Advisor, IBC Advisory Council, IBC Cambridge
  

• 1995-2000: Chair of the Library Advisory Bord (at IPR-BAS)
• 1987-1990: Advisor - International Relations, Bulgarian Philosophical Society