Velislav Zarev

Personal information

Contacts

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2, Gagarin Street
1113, Sofia

Tel.: 0988 87 87 53
E-mail: velislav.zarev@gmail.com

Curriculum vitae

Education

2011 - 2015
PhD student, IBER - BAS, Aquatic ecosystems Dept., Section of Ichthyology and Fish ressources. With thesis on the distribution and biology of the family Gobiidae in Bulgaria.

2009 - 2011
Biological faculty, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, MSc in "Applied hydrobiology and aquaculture". With thesis "On the biology and ecology of Gambusia holbrooki in Bulgaria".

2005 - 2009
Biological faculty, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, BSc in "Ecology and environmental protection".

1993 - 2005
22 SOU Georgi Stoykov Rakovski, Sofia. Profile with advanced study of chemistry and biology.

Participation in projects

Selection of a contractor for field studies of distribution and abundance of fish, EEA-MEW, 2600 / 30.07.2013, "FORTIS FACILITY" Ltd., NMNHS (2013-2015)
Joint actions to raise awareness on overexploitation of Danube sturgeons in Romania and Bulgaria.

Mapping and determination of the conservation status of nature habitats and species. At Natura 2000 program, 2011-2013.

Black sea gobies - biological resource with undervalued economic significance. DO-02-201, 2009-2012.

Definition of referent terms and a maximum ecological potential on the types of surface waters/rivers/lakes/ on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria. № 5/27.03.2009 at Ministry of environment and water.

Biological diversity of aquatic ecosystems in watlands of the flooding terrace of the Lower Danube in optimizing the ecosystem functions under conditions of climate changes (NSF, DO02-352/2009).

Effects of floods on the state and changes in the ichthyofauna of standing waters on the example of the Danube - Park "Hatcheries Orsoya" in Lom Municipality and the Iskar River - Quarry Lakes near Sofia. Financed by science research fund(№ 75/15.05.2009) at Sofia University.

Specialisations

2014 - Specialisation in the european freshwater and marine gobies in Odessa National University and Museum of Natural History, Kiev, Ukraine.

2010 - 2011
Specialisation in the field of ichthyology at Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Languages

Bulgarian, English, Russian.

Other

2006 - 2014
Chairman of Natural science association "Acad. Ivan Buresh".

Research interests

Fish ecology and biology. Invasive species. Commercial fishing. Hydrobiology.

Publications

Zarev V., A. Apostolou, B. Velkov, M. Vassilev, "Review of the distribution of the Family Gobiidae (Pisces) in the Bulgarian Danube tributaries" (2013), Ecologica Balkanica, 5 (2), pp. 81-89.

Zarev V., A. Apostolou, B. Velkov, M. Vassilev, „Bulgarian Black Sea gobies as important object in the commercial fishing” (2013), Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science, 19 (2), 2013: 233-236.

Atlas of the Gobies (Gobiidae) in Bulgaria. 2012. Milen Vassilev, Apostolos Apostolu, Boris Velkov, Dobrin Dobrev, Velislav Zarev.

Zarev V., 2012. Some life-history traits of Gambusia holbrooki (Pisces: Poecilidae) from Bulgaria. Acta zool. bulg., 64 (3), 2012: 263-272.

Affiliation

Department

Aquatic Ecosystems

Division

Ecological Classification and Bioresources of Freshwater Ecosystems

Research group

Fish Biodiversity and Resources

Хронология

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