Visiting Professor

Contact details

Room 740.245A
Tamaki Campus
cnr Morrin Road & Merton Road
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 84543
Email: s.fakirov@auckland.ac.nz

Biography

1960-71 Assistant Professor, Sofia University.
1972-87 Associate Professor, Sofia University.
1987- Professor on Polymer Chemistry, Sofia University.
1987-89 Vice President, Sofia University.
1984- 05 Head, Laboratory on Polymers, Sofia University.

Qualifications

1954-59 M.S., Sofia University, Faculty of Chemistry, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1962-66 Ph.D., Lomonossov State University, Moscow, USSR.
1982 D.Sc., Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Research interests

• Structure-properties relationships in polymers and composite materials
• Microscopic characterisation
• Polymer materials science
• Manufacturing technologies for high performance plastics and composites with thermoplastic matrices
• Reactions in solid and molten condensation polymers (basics and commercial application)
• Sequential reordering in condensation copolymers
• Chemical healing
• Micro- and nanofibrils reinforced composites
• Microhardness of polymers
• Gelatin- and starch-based biomaterials
• Materials for biomedical applications
• Single polymer composites.

Research groups

• Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM)

Selected publications

J. Karger Kocsis, S. Fakirov, (Eds.), Nano- and Micromechanics of Polymers and Composites, Hanser Publisher, Munich, 2009.
S. Fakirov, D. Bhattacharyya, (Eds.), Engineering biopolymers: homopolymers, blends and composites, Hanser Publisher, Munich, 2007
S. Fakirov, (Ed.), Handbook of Condensation Thermoplastic Elastomers, Wiley - VCH, Weinheim, 2005
K. Friedrich, S. Fakirov, and Z. Zhang, (Eds.), Polymer Composites: from Nano- to Macroscale, Springer, Boston, 2005.

Professional affiliations

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Polymeric Materials (1992)
• Editorial Board member, Applied Composite Materials (1994-97)
• Editorial Board member, Advances in Polymer Technology (1998)
• Editorial Advisory Board member, Recent Patents on Material Science (2007)
• Editorial Board member, The Open Macromolecules Journal (2007)
• Editorial Board member, eXPRESS Polymer Letters (2009)
• Editorial Board Member of Advanced Materials Letters (2010)
• Fellow, Who’s Who in the World.
• Fellow, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
• Fellow, Leading Educators of the World 2006, (IBC, Cambridge, England).
• Fellow, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, (IBC, Cambridge, England).