This year marks the seventh time the Humboldt Foundation has singled out innovative network ideas of Humboldt alumni for a Humboldt Alumni Award with the aim of fostering academic and cultural ties between Germany and the Alumni's home countries and strengthening their collaboration in the respective regions.

Professor Dr Milcho Kirilov Tsvetkov is associate member at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria, since 2013. He completed his doctorate in Physics and Mathematics at Yerevan State University, Armenia, in 1976. He conducted research as a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Münster from 1988 to 1990.

The network initiative "Humboldt Astroinformatics Networking" created by the astronomer and computer scientist Milcho Kirilov Tsvetkov aims to network scientists from his home country and the neighbouring Balkan States as well as from Armenia, Germany and the Ukraine who conduct research in the astroinformatics field.Plans foresee members of the network developing research tools and sharing information about innovations in the IT field. The network is also to acts as a platform for initiating collaborative research. A web portal will be set up for exchanging information and networking, also with an eye to young researchers.

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