Vesselin Petkov

Picture: Vesselin Petkov with his wife Svetla in Havana, Cuba in January 2011.

He received a graduate degree in physics from Sofia University, a doctorate in philosophy from the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and a doctorate in physics from Concordia University in Montreal. He taught at Sofia University and Concordia University, and also had a stint at the Physics Department of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, before coming to Montreal in 1990.

Vesselin Petkov is one of the founding members of the Institute for Foundational Studies "Hermann Minkowski" (http://www.minkowskiinstitute.org/) whose most distinct feature is the employment of a research strategy based on the successful methods behind the greatest discoveries in physics. In this sense the Minkowski Institute is without a counterpart in the world.

Website: http://spacetimecentre.org/vpetkov/