Vesselin Petrov

Dr. Vesselin Petrov holds an MA in mathematics (1977), a PhD in philosophy (1989) and a DSc in philosophy (2011). He is Professor and Head of the Department of “Models, Methodologies, and Heuristics” of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His fields of research interest include process philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, applied ontology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics. He is author of four books in Bulgarian and of more than 120 papers in Bulgarian, English, Russian and Chinese. He is also editor of twenty books in Bulgarian and English, among them Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2011), Dynamic Being: Essays in Process-Relational Ontology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and Mathematics in Philosophy (Les Éditions Chromatika, 2017). Professor Petrov was Executive Director (2015 – 2017) of the International Process Network. He is Editor-in-chief of the international periodical Balkan Journal of Philosophy.