Mr. Dr. Roumen Nikolov

Dr. Roumen Nikolov is a professor and Vice Chair of the Management Board of Sofia Knowledge City Cluster. He is also UNESCO Chairholder and Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria. He works in the area of Future Internet Technologies and applications (e.g. Smart Cities), e-learning, digital archives and services, innovation and entrepreneurship. Prof. Nikolov is President of Virtech Ltd and he supported creation of several start-ups during the last 20 years. He has specialised in USA, UK, the Netherlands, and other countries. Prof. Nikolov is also member of several expert groups at European and national level. He was involved in the development of the Sofia Strategy for Smart Specialisation. During the last 25 years he has participated in more than 100 European and international projects and got a dedicated award from Ministry of Education and Science in 2014. He has more than 100 research papers.