DEGREES AWARDED:

• Ph.D. - SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 1997
• M. S. - University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria, 1988

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

• Experimental Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

AWARDS:

Kavli Frontiers Fellow 2010
Alfred P.Sloan Fellow 2007
Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator  2004

CURRENT APPOINTMENT:

• 20012-Present : Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

• 2008-2012 : Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• 2003-2008 : Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• 2001-2003 : Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY
• 2000-2001 : Research Staff Scientist, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
  
• 1997-2000 : Post-doctoral Research Associate, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
• 1992-1997 : Research Assistant,SUNY Stony Brook, NY
• 1991-1992 : Teaching Assistant, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
• 1989-1991 : Research Assistant, Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

PUBLICATIONS LIST ( as generated by InSPIRE):

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Teaching:
  
• PHYS 223 Thermal Physics
• PHYS 255 Introduction to Particle Physics
• PHYS 225w Introduction to Quantum Physics and Applications
• PHYS 116b Introductory Physics
• PHYS 340a Nuclear and Heavy Ion Theory
• PHYS 300 Graduate Seminar
• Conference and workshop organizing and/or  advisory committees:
• Quark Matter 2012, August 13-18, Washington, DC, USA
• Quark Matter 2011, May 23-28, 2011, Annecy, France
  
• Quark Matter 2009, March 30 – April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
• Student day, preceeding Quark Matter 2009, March 29,2009
• International Organizing Committee of Hot Quarks 2008 , Hot Quarks 2006, Hot Quarks 2004
  
• Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, Oct. 25-28, 2006 Nashville, TN

• Nuclear and Particle Physics seminar series, Dept. of Phys.And Astr., Vanderbilt, 2004 - 2005
• Strangeness and Exotica, May14, 2004, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• Nuclear Physics Seminar Series at Brookhaven National Lab , 2002 - 2003
• Local Organizing Committee of the 8^th International Wigner Symposium, May 27-30 at CUNY, New York City.
• Nuclear Science Advisory Committee: 2011 - present
  
• Convener of CMS Heavy Ion program: 2012 - present
  
• Convener of PHENIX hard scattering physics working group: 2009 - 2010
• Convener of CMS correlations and flow in heavy ions group: 2009 -2011
  
• RHIC/AGS User Executive committee: 2005-2007
  
• Convener of PHENIX hadron physics working group: 2001 - 2004
• PHENIX Speakers Bureau member: 2004 - 2005
• Convener of Equation of State working group, RHIC II physics, 2004-2005
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration, Nucl.Phys.A757:184-283,2005, arXiv:nucl-ex/0410003

• Scaling properties of proton and anti-proton production in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions” PHENIX collaboration, S.S. Adler et al.,  Phys. Rev. Lett 91, 172301 (2003)  arXiv: nucl-ex/0305036

• “Elliptic Flow of Identified Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV”, PHENIX collaboration, S.S. Adler et al, Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 182301, arXiv: nucl-ex/0305013
• “Identified Charged Particle Spectra and Yields in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV” PHENIX collaboration,  S. S. Adler et al., Phys.Rev.C69:034909,2004 , arXiv: nucl-ex/0307022
•  “Centrality dependence of pi+-, K+-, p and pbar production from sqrt(s)=130 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC”, PHENIX collaboration, K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 242301 (2002).