Prof. Rumyana Stoilova

Prof. Rumyana Stoilova is President of the Bulgarian Sociological Association since 2018, Director of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2010-2018). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Women in Technology and is an expert at the Martens Center for European Studies. In her professional career as a sociologist, she balances research (since 1982 at the Institute of Sociology) and teaching (Southwestern University Blagoevgrad 1997-2004, Sofia University and New Bulgarian University 2008-2012). She has visited the Universities of Budapest, Vienna, Mannheim, Bielefeld, Munich, Bamberg, Hamburg and Oslo.

Prof. Stoilova is currently the head of the project “Digital Divisions and Social Inequalities” (2021-2024). She led the Bulgarian teams in the project “Negotiating early job-insecurity and labour market exclusion in Europe” (2015-2018), funded by Horizon 2020; as well as the project “Social inequalities and regional differences in transitions from education to work in Bulgaria”, funded by the Bulgarian-Swiss Research Fund (BSHIT) and the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (2012-2015).