Nucleation, 2nd Edition

Dimo Kashchiev is a Professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria.

He graduated in physics at Sofia University in Sofia, Bulgaria, after presenting a theoretical M.Sc. thesis on nonstationary nucleation. In the same year, he joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He took the position of Research Professor at this Institute in 1989.

In 1975, he defended a Ph.D. thesis on the kinetic theory of nucleation. In 1987, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Science for a thesis on the theory of nucleation and growth of new phases. In 2004, he became a Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1970, he specialized for two months in the Laboratory for Crystal Growth of Prof. A. A. Chernov at the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. In 1975-1976, he was a postdoctoral research fellow for one year in the Laboratory for Crystal Growth of Prof. P. Bennema at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands.

Professor Kashchiev has served as a Visiting Professor (by invitation) at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands, Hiroshima University in Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, the Reservoir Engineering Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, and as a Liverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds in Leeds, UK.