Krassimir atanassov biography

Krassimir Todorov Atanassov (23 March 1954, Burgas, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively. Atanassov is also known for his research in the area of number theory.

Education

Krassimir Atanassov graduated mathematics in the Sofia University, Sofia, in 1978, and defended his PhD in 1986. He became Doctor of Technical (computer) Sciences in 1997, with a doctor thesis on Generalized nets, and three years later defended a second degree - Doctor of Mathematical Sciences, with a thesis in the other field of his scientific interest - Intuitionistic fuzzy sets.

Honorary Associate of the University of Technology, Sydney, since 1995. Member of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians since 1979, and of the American Mathematical Society since 1989.

Since 1995 he has been working in the Centre o Website of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences!