CV of Dr. Iliya Dimitrov Stoev

In 2016, Dr. Stoev received his MChemPhys in Chemical Physics from University of Edinburgh after spending one year in industry at Syngenta and receiving the award for best Master's project that year. In 2020, he graduated with his PhD in soft matter physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Until mid-2023 he was a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden in the lab of Prof. Moritz Kreysing. Since the start of 2024, Dr. Stoev is a fully funded independent research fellow (YIG Prep Pro) at the Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he works on the design and characterisation of sequence-programmable DNA systems.

Postdoc in KIT

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biophysics (June 2023 - December 2023)
Institute for Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing (IBCS-BIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Project Title: Active, phase-sensitive and probe-free microrheology based on thermoviscous flows (article in preparation)

Postdoc Mentor: Prof. Moritz Kreysing


Postdoc in MPI-CBG

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biophysics (September 2020 - May 2023)
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Project Title: Highly sensitive force measurements in an optically generated, harmonic hydrodynamic trap (view publication)

Postdoc Mentor: Prof. Moritz Kreysing


Education in Cambridge

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (October 2016 - November 2020)
Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thesis Title: Broadband rheological characterisation of soft functional materials (view here)

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Erika Eiser

Thesis examiners: Prof. Paul Bartlett and Dr. Tijmen Euser

Thesis Outcome: Outright pass


Education in Edinburgh

Master of Chemical Physics (September 2011 - June 2016)
Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Thesis Title: Compositional ripening of droplets in a three-phase liquid system (view publication)

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Paul Clegg

Thesis Outcome: First class