Resume

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Education

PhD in Nuclear Physics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2018 - 2021
- Thesis: Primary standardization of radioactivity using the TDCR method in Liquid Scintillation Counting
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MS in Medical Physics from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2018 with excellent mark
- Thesis: Study on the applications of the TDCR method
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BS in Medical Physics from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2016 with excellent mark
- Thesis: Determination of diffusion length and solubility of ²²²Rn in plastic scintillators EJ-212 and BC-400
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Graduation from “National High School of Mathematics and Science” Akad. L. Chakalov
- Class of Physics and Astronomy

Work experience

Spring 2022 - present: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Paul Scherrer Institut
- Research on the systematic effects in the search for the electric dipole moment of the muon
June 2019 – December 2019 & September 2020 - January 2021: Guest scientist
- Laboratoire National Henry Becqerel
- Research on radionuclide metrology using liquid scinitillation counting
- Research on fast timing of PMT signals in low-light scenario
2018: Physicist - MetroRadon - project title “Metrology for radon monitoring“
Spring 2018 – Fall 2021: Full time physicist
- Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“, Department of Atomic Physics
- Work at the Metrology of Ionizing Radiation Laboratory
- Duties: metrological measurements and studies, detector design and development, data analysis
2017: Physicist - Polyrad
- project title: “Rеsearch of properties of novel high-tech polymer materials for development of new radon measurement techniques“

Skills

Programming languages
- Python
  - example code: gitlab.com/cdutsov/tdcr_analysis_offline
- C, C++
  - example code:
  - experience with Atmel and Microchip microcontrollers, parallel computing with MPI, Arduino
- Rust
- FPGA programming via VHDL
  - programmed a Time-to-Amplitude Converter with ~20 ps timing resolution
- Web development HTML+CSS+JavaScript, Python back-end
  - example code: online database for management of experimental data
- Java (Android platform)
  - published several small applications for Android
Linux
- experience with Linux administration
- good knowledge of tools such as: Vim, git, i3, systemd and the GNU core utilities

Awards from competitions

Bronze Medal, International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012
Silver Medal, International Astronomy Olympiad, Trieste, Italy 2008
First Place, Bulgarian National Physics Competition, Shumen 2012
Participation Award, International Astronomy Olympiad, Shanhai, China 2009
First Place, National Olympiad on Computer Mathematics, Bulgaria, 2015
Award in the name of G. Nadzhakov from Eureka Foundation, 2015
Award for exceptional achievements in the field of Physics and Astronomy from the National High School of Mathematics and Science “Akad. L. Chakalov” 2012
Siver Medal, National Olympiad on Mathematics, 2015
Bronze Medal, National Olympiad on Mathematics 2016
Third Place, National Olympiad on Astronomy 2010
First Place in the National Contest “Space – present and future of mankind” for the creation of an online astronomy encyclopedia in bulgarian. 2007
Third Place, National Robotics Competition, Technical University Sofia, 2015
First Place, SoftUni Tech Fest – category Robotics, 2017

Certificates

English language certificate – IELTS; score 7,5/9
English language certificate – TOEFL; score 112/120
SAT Physics 800/800
SAT Mathematics II 750/800
SAT Mathematics I 760/800
SAT Critical Reading - 620/800
SAT Writing – 650/800
French level A2

Selected Publications

Anomalous spin precession systematic effects in the search for a muon EDM using the frozen-spin technique Permalink

G. Cavoto, R. Chakraborty, A. Doinaki, C. Dutsov, M. Giovannozzi, T. Hume, K. Kirch, K. Michielsen, L. Morvaj, A. Papa, F. Renga, M. Sakurai & P. Schmidt-Wellenburg