site.btaVili Lilkov Is Top-of-the-List Candidate of Blue Bulgaria for Sofia 23rd Constituency

BTA will publish the names of the top-of-the-list candidates of every party/coalition for all constituencies for the April 19 parliamentary elections. The information about the candidates is provided by the respective political entity, the candidates themselves and other official sources.

Vili Lilkov was born on 6 April 1955 in Vidin, according to information on the website of Sofia Municipality. He is deputy chair of Sofia Municipal Council and a municipal councillor from Blue Sofia. He has served five terms as municipal councillor, in 1999-2003, 2003-2007, 2007-2011, 2011-2014 and 2023-2027. In 1973 he graduated from the First Polytechnic High School Dimitar Blagoev in Vidin with a physics and mathematics profile. He was admitted to the Faculty of Physics of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski without an entrance examination as the top performer in the selection round for the International Physics Olympiad for secondary school students. He completed his higher education in 1980 in Engineering Physics, specializing in Nuclear Physics.

From 1980 to 1983 he worked at the chemical plant in Vidin. In 1984 he joined the Physics Department at the St. Ivan Rilski University of Mining and Geology in Sofia as assistant lecturer. In 1986 he became senior assistant lecturer and in 1988 chief assistant lecturer. Between 1989 and 1994 he was an external doctoral student in neutron physics at the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences under Prof. Kiril Krezhov. He defended his doctoral dissertation in 1994 on a spectrometer for polarised neutrons and the study of amorphous magnetic tapes.

In 1997 he was awarded the academic rank of associate professor and from 2011 has been professor of physics at the University of Mining and Geology. Since 1999 he has been head of the Physics Department and a member of the university’s Academic Council. His teaching work includes lectures in physics for students at the Mining Electromechanical Faculty and in atomic and nuclear physics for students in Applied Geophysics at the Geological Prospecting Faculty. He initiated the comprehensive re-equipment of classrooms and laboratory facilities in the educational institutions where he teaches.

On 28 September 2013 he was elected chair of the Sofia city organization of Democrats for Strong Bulgaria. In 2014 he was elected member of parliament from Sofia in the 43rd National Assembly from the Reformist Bloc. He speaks Russian and English. He has three children.