For 35 years, Bourgas University “Prof. As Zlatarov” has grown into a modern university structure. The first step towards this structure was the adherence to the Magna Charta of European universities as early as 1988. Besides the faculties of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the following new faculties were developed – Business and Humanities, Faculty of Pedagogy, the College of Tourism and the Medical Colleges. We are proud that our University has a considerable scientific potential: 80 our 200 lecturers have the academic ranks Professor or Associate Professor, 50 others have PhDs. Their experience has found manifestation in about 150 monographs and textbooks and 6000 scientific publications in the country and abroad. This fact is worthy of admiration because the prestige of a university is mainly due to the research work carried out there.
Our academic body has also greatly contributed to the success of European community financed programs, such as TEMPUS, COST, PHARE.
We have established fruitful co-operation with institutes and universities in the country and abroad - Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, the USA, etc.
LMC has a research staff of 22 scientists and 2 technicians: Including 2 professors, 2 associate professors, 18 research associates (chemists, physicists, programmers and matematicents). The University provides to LMC 7 computer labs (including utilities) with the following computer facilities: a HP C100/9000 workstation (128 MB RAM, UNIX, used as www, NFS and mail server) and about 20 PC’s (typical configuration: Pentium/Pentium IV, 512 MB RAM, ~20 GB HD, MS Windows). All computers are in the University LAN. For computations, other university-owned UNIX workstations and an IBM 4331 mainframe are used, as well. These facilities will be fully utilized for the present project. LMC has contract relationships with several State agencies, such as US EPA, Danish EPA, Environment Canada, Health Canada, NITE – Japan and large number of industrial companies, such as 3M, AstraZeneca, DuPont, Proctor and Gamble, ExxonMobil.

RESEARCH TEAM: Ovanes Mekenyan, Sabcho Dimitrov, Stoyan Karabunarliev