He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector[2] at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.
In 1949 he joined the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Sofia (now the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy) as an assistant where he stayed until moving to the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Sofia University in 1951, becoming full professor and head of department in 1960.
He was the first to introduce adsorption as a thermodynamic factor in crystal growth, and studied catalysis, particular in relation to ammonia oxidation,[2] the preparation of pure substances, radiochemical processes,[4] and the effect of impurities on the linear crystallization rate.
[5] He is the co-author of some of the most popular secondary school chemistry text books in Bulgaria.
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