Dr. Kiril Bahcevandziev

Associate Editor

Dr.Kiril Bahcevandziev was born in Republic of Macedonia, in 1959. He received his BSc degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Kiril & Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia (FYROM), in 1984, the MSc degree in Agricultural Engineering in the MAICH (CIHAEM/ICAMAS), Chania, Greece in 1992 and his PhD in 2003 in Agricultural Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (actually University of Lisbon).

In 1985 he joined Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kiril & Methodius as an Assistant and in 1994 enrolled as lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Azores, Portugal and in 1995 at the Department of Agronomic Sciences, Coimbra Agriculture College, Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal, where he is actually an Associate Professor.

His current research interests include plant genetic breeding of horticultural crops for disease resistance, plant biotechnology, di-haploid production of rice with tolerance to salt and drought, flower management and production under protected cultivation and genome study of aromatic and medicinal plants.

Dr Kiril Bahcevandziev is a Fellow of the Portuguese Association for Horticulture and International Society for Horticultural Science. He is a Coordinator of the BSc course in Biotechnology at Coimbra Agriculture College and is peer reviewer of PTOC, WJAR and AJPS. He is invited professor of the University of Natural Sciences in Bydgoszcz and Poznan (Poland), Mendel University of Brno (Czech Republic) and University Goce Delcev in Stip (Macedonia). He speaks Portuguese, English, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Spanish and Bulgarian.

He was a President of the Pedagogic Council at Coimbra Agriculture College and member of the organizing comity of the VIII International Symposium on In Vitro Culture and Horticultural Breeding (held in Coimbra in 2013) and organizing member of various events in agriculture, horticulture and plant biotechnology in Portugal.

Actually works on a chapter related with the macro algae as bio fertilizer in production of horticultural crops.

Dr Kiril Bahcevandziev lives in Coimbra, Portugal

EMAIL ID: kiril@esac.pt

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