UNIVERSITY OF RUSE
UNION OF SCIENTISTS - RUSE

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (2022)

Doc. DILYAN FERDINANDOV, MD, MPH, PhD, FEBNS, Neurosurgeon

Assoc. Prof. of Clinic of Neurosurgery, St. Ivan Rilski University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria

Department of Neurosrugery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Sofia, Vertebra Medical Center, Sofia, Bulgaria

E-mail: ferdinandov@gmail.com

Topic:TECHNICAL ADVANCES AND TRENDS IN NEUROSURGERY FOR BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE
Abstract

Associate Professor Dilyan Ferdinandov is a neurosurgeon at the University Hospital of St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia, and associate professor at the Department of Neurosurgery of Medical University - Sofia with over 15 years of medical and teaching experience. He is the author of over 50 scientific works and has over 200 participations in scientific conferences and over 10 scientific projects. He holds a master's degree in public health and health management and a PhD degree in spinal surgery, as well as a European diploma in neurosurgery. Between 2003-2012, he successively specialized in neuro-oncology, vascular, functional, and neurosurgery at the University Clinics of Zurich (Switzerland), Münster (Germany), Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore (USA), Leiden, and The Hague (Netherlands). He is the owner of many prestigious awards as the "Golden Hippocrates" and the Medal of Honor of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria for his achievements as a young scientist in medicine. In 2019 created the Vertebra medical center, striving to maintain high standards in the treatment of diseases of the spine and musculoskeletal system by applying new technologies. He strives to implement new concepts in medicine, in particular approaches to preserving spinal mobility, pain control, intraoperative imaging, as well as minimally invasive surgical techniques. His future academic projects aim to integrate daily clinical work with a wide range of 3D technologies — scanning, virtual and augmented reality, additive manufacturing, and printing.

D-r Rer. Nat. DIRK WAGENER

CORPORATE & PERSONAL HEALTH CONSULTING

Head of the innovative ZELLKRAFT program at the Rotherbaum Center for Prevention and Health Management – Hamburg, Germany.

E-mail: wagener@zell-kraft.de

Topic:THE INNOVATIVE ZELLKRAFT PROGRAM OF THE ROTHERBAUM CENTER FOR PREVENTION AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT - NOTICEABLY MORE ENERGY IN EVERY CELL OF THE HUMAN BODY
Abstract

Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Wagener is a micro- and cell biologist who is responsible for the marketing of innovative high-tech products (medical technologies, biotechnology) as part of his long-term professional and managerial experience as a manager. Building on this, he advises companies on strategic marketing and organizational development with a focus on corporate health management.
Since 2008, he has been developing preventive medical methods and applications, for example for mitochondrial regeneration, with renowned experts and offering his developments to specialized groups of doctors and therapists.
Under the ZELLKRAFT brand since 2013 D-r rer. nat. Dirk Wagener creates the innovative and above all very effective "pit stop concept" for more physical and mental fitness of health-conscious managers and employees in business companies in Hamburg.
"I am convinced that a sustainable and successful transition to a healthy lifestyle can only be achieved if the personal health program takes into account two aspects: 100% (office) suitability for daily work and enjoyment of work, which should not be neglected . My calling is to optimize people's health, fitness and natural radiance. I do this with my scientific background and a lot of passion.”
An enthusiastic diver and father of a family, he now lives near Hamburg.

Academician CHAVDAR RUMENIN – INSTITUTE OF ROBOTICS, BAS

DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL COMPETENCE CENTER "QUANTUM COMMUNICATION, INTELLIGENT SECURITY SYSTEMS AND RISK MANAGEMENT" – QUAZAR

E-mail: roumenin@bas.bg

Topic:INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY - FROM THE INVISIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO THE FUTURE TODAY
Abstract


Chavdar Rumenin was born in 1949 in Sofia. In 1975, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. Professor of sensors and control systems at the Institute of Management and System Studies (IUSI) at the BAS and at the Technical University - Sofia.
In 2004, he was elected a corresponding member of the BAS, and in 2012, an academician in the field of engineering sciences. He was the scientific secretary of the Institute of Systems Engineering, and from 1999 to 2018 he was the director of the Institute of Robotics. With his active support, the structure becomes a modern and high-tech organization, whose mission and priorities are the hypertechnologies of the 21st century, namely robotics and artificial intelligence. The academician has organized and built with the help of projects 4 modern laboratories for the purposes of sensors, robotics and magnetic measurements. It is in this field that the KVAZAR Competence Center develops its main activity, of which he is the head.
Academician Rumenin is the author of three monographic works and has more than 390 publications in prestigious journals and publications, including the journal "Science". He is one of the most cited Bulgarian scientists, he was the supervisor and consultant of more than 20 doctoral students and has over 160 inventions, a significant part of which were transferred as technologies in the national industry with a huge economic impact.
Roumenin participated in the international team of researchers and engineers at CERN and developed the apparatus proving the existence of the X-boson. His name is entered in the "Golden Book of Bulgarian Discoverers and Inventors", he holds the titles "Inventor of the Year" and "Honorary Inventor of Bulgaria". He is the recipient of the "Pythagoras" award for an established scientist in 2012, of the Order of "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" first degree in 2019 and many other foreign and national honors. He is actively involved in the activities of the BAS Training Center with lectures on innovative technologies for the preparation of doctoral students and postdoctoral students. He is the national coordinator for Bulgaria of the European network of multifunctional microsystems Nexus.
He is a member of the supervisory board of the European Sensors and Microsystems Association Eurosensors and national coordinator of the European priority center NEXUSPAN for Bulgaria. Deputy is the chairman of the Union of Inventors in Bulgaria and an expert of the National Patent Office. Expert of the European Commission in the field of sensors and microsystems. He is a member of the editorial board of the most prestigious international magazine in the field of sensors and microsystems "Sensors and Actuators".
Academician Chavdar Roumenin is a long-time member of the Higher Attestation Commission, the Commission for Cooperation with CERN and the Council of the Eureka Foundation.


TECHNICAL ADVANCES AND TRENDS IN NEUROSURGERY FOR BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE
DILYAN FERDINANDOV

Abstract: Latest technologies in the field of neurosurgery maximize patient safety and improve treatment outcomes. These advances are integrated into all aspects of clinical care - from diagnosis through surgery, postoperative care and rehabilitation. The current review will outline recent neurosurgical advances in the management of brain tumors, movement disorders, spinal degenerative disease, neurologic injury, and the expanding area of brain-machine interface. It is a complex and multidisciplinary knowledge related to the nervous system with overlapping aspects which are closely interconnected to elementary professional subjects such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. For example, minimally invasive surgical techniques are a part of the daily practice of many spine surgeons. They aim less tissue damage, predictable clinical outcomes, shorter hospital stays and faster postoperative rehabilitation, clinical efficacy, and reasonable cost. Based on the facts that our specialty relies on meticulous motor skills to carefully manipulate vulnerable structure, work through narrow areas, and prolonged procedures with surgeon fatigue, it is a good candidate for robotic surgery. To support all the additive manufacturing regarding 3D printing, the related 3D scanning and work in extended reality environment is described as a feature of the third industrial revolution. We will broadly use anatomic haptic models for preoperative planning, surgical guides for the operative procedure, and patient-specific individual implants for tissue reconstruction.



THE INNOVATIVE ZELLKRAFT PROGRAM OF THE ROTHERBAUM CENTER FOR PREVENTION AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT - NOTICEABLY MORE ENERGY IN EVERY CELL OF THE HUMAN BODY
DIRK WAGENER

Abstract: ZELLKRAFT is scientifically validated health training for targeted improvement of cellular metabolism. It functions exactly where a person's energy is created: in the powerhouses of the cell, the so-called mitochondria.
THIS MEANS: Improved performance, reduced recovery time, better memory, better sleep, better appearance through tighter skin and reduction of excess body weight. It is due to the release of various "good mood hormones" in the brain (neurotransmitters) that maintain mental balance.
THE METHOD: Targeted regeneration is at the heart of the ZELLKRAFT method. Energy production in the cells is enhanced by using high purity mountain air. This noticeably strengthens and revitalizes the entire body with all its organs and bodily functions. Through targeted additional measures in the field of fitness, nutrition and relaxation, the metabolism and cellular energy level are activated and restored in the long term.



INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY - FROM THE INVISIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO THE FUTURE TODAY
CHAVDAR RUMENIN

Abstract: Fate is not always kind to seekers. The secrets of knowledge have never been hidden somewhere. But do we have the eyes to see them, the heart to feel them, and the mind to understand them, when the need to veer off the beaten and comfortable path overwhelms us. There are no ultimate truths, no fully described suffering or happiness, hope and disappointment will never cease to accompany us. That mystery of contemplating the starry sky and finding concrete earthly truths and technical solutions in infinity is a gift from God. We all know about the great discoveries, about the turning points in the development of civilization, science and technology. Aristotle, St. St. Cyril and Methodius, Galileo, Newton and Watt, Foucault and Lavoisier, Lobachevsky and Mendeleev, Poincaré, Gauss and Planck, Marconi and Tesla, Einstein and Freud, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, Academician Pencho Slaveykov and Teodor Trayanov, Ivan Milev and Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora, Yesenin and Acad. Sakharov, Acad. Bogdan Filov, John Atanasov, Acad. Balevsky and Acad. Sendov, etc., listing the names of these awakeners of the spirit and knowledge can be continued ad infinitum. For each one of them, we know how he reached and turned the invisible into the visible, the impossible into the possible, and gave us pieces of the future. And surely Leonardo da Vinci was right that in science the opinion of one is much more valuable than the convictions of thousands. Almost everything in engineering is borrowed from nature. However, there is one thing that is truly the pinnacle of human imagination and creative genius. This is the digital information - with only zeros and ones we control everything, really, absolutely everything! And without this "human" discovery, we will never create our best assistant - artificial intelligence. There is another miracle, but it is Bulgarian. This is our first and unsurpassed invention - the Bulgarian, our A a, B b, C c ..... The sacred symbols of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius have given meaning to the power and culture of our great empire in the past, and now the progress that coming up.
It is not an exaggeration to say that what makes our lives more comfortable and meaningful is subject to invention. Technological solutions drive industry, finance, medicine, and all that we call the prosperity of individual countries. The more common word for the purpose is innovation or creativity. The simplest, but perhaps most accurate, definition of innovation is the transformation of the intellectual products contained in inventions into money, goods, and industrial development. This path is thorny for us. Not that bankers elsewhere give money easily for the transfer of patented technologies, but they are probably more risk-averse there.
My meeting with you is a kind of balance sheet - to present to the intellectual elite of Ruse the scientific and applied results that we managed to have today as particles or more precisely as dust particles from the future. The responsibility is huge, both to you and to the Taxpayer. Almost everything I'm about to tell you about is an invention. It was initially an idea, then it was theoretically researched and experimented to finally become a patent. We will talk about our innovations in sensors, robotics and metrology, airspace control, converting the energy of sea waves into electricity, earthquake prediction, smart agriculture and crop production, cyber-physical systems for national security, underwater devices for recreational tourism, etc.



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