Dr. Boian Koulov

Institute of Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

  B. Koulov, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Secretary at the Institute of Geography of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

  In 2007, Dr. Koulov became Founding Chairman of the Sofia-based Association of Bulgarian Schools abroad. He is also Founding President of the association of Bulgarian schools in the USA. In 2002, Dr. B. Koulov founded the Bulgarian Education Center in Washington, D.C. - a school with kindergarten that teaches Bulgarian language, history, geography, and culture.

  Between 1990 and 2007, Dr. Koulov has lived in the US and taught at George Washington   University and American University in Washington, D.C., George Mason University in Virginia, and West Virginia University. Dr. Koulov lectured on the environmental issues in Bulgaria at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and has also participated in U.S. State Department briefings on the environmental policy priorities in the Black Sea region. He is former Chair of the Board of Directors (1997-99) of the European Specialty Group at Association of American Geographers.The U.S. National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. National Research Council, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are among the sponsors of his research. He has reviewed research proposals for the U.S. National Science Foundations and the U.S. National Research Council. In 2005, Dr. Koulov was a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholar.

Between 1987 and 1990, Dr. Koulov was a Research Fellow with the Faculty of Geology and Geography at Sofia University. He graduated from Sofia University with a major in Geography of Tourism and received his Ph.D. in Economic and Social Geography from the Institute of Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Contact Dr. Boian Koulov at: bkoulov@yahoo.com