Robert's Short Biography
Robert Penchovsky is a full professor of molecular genetics, synthetic biology, and bioinformatics at the Faculty of Biology of
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” 
, Bulgaria, where he obtained his Master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular genetics, and his аssociate’s degree
in applied computer sciences. Robert attended 30th high school in Sofia with extensive learning of German language 
.
He earned his Doctoral degree in genetics from Cologne University 
, Germany while researching in the fields of microfluidics
and DNA computing for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft 
at Schloss Birlinghoven in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany.
Robert did his postdoctoral study in the fields
of computational biology and RNA synthetic biology at Yale University 
, New Haven, CT, USA.
In addition to that Robert has worked for short periods of time as a software engineer, a biotech consultant, and a researcher of molecular biology at the Institute of Molecular Biology 
in Sofia, Bulgaria and at the former Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Jena, Germany (now Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jane 
, Germany).
Robert is a former reserve lieutenant of the Bulgarian Army .
As a research and teaching faculty at Sofia University since 2010, Robert pioneered the teaching and research in synthetic biology and bioinformatics in Bulgaria. Robert's publications have H-index of 15 points. He took part in 19 research projects. Robert is a leading author (the first or the last author) of 97% of his publications and the corresponding author(*) of 92% of them! 87% of all publications have not more than 3 co-authors and 11.4% of them have 4 or 5 co-authors. Only one publication has more than 5 co-authors (1.6%), namely 7. Since his assistant professorship position in 2010, Robert has published 14 papers of various types as a solid author and 38 papers only with my current or former master or doctoral students as co-authors. A list of 998 citations of Robert's publications without self-citations till the end of 28.04.2023 can be seen here. Robert's publications have an Impact Factor (IF) of 216.7 points.
In Penchovsky's laboratory, 16 master's students and 5 doctoral students have successfully defended their theses. Robert is the head of several master's programs in genetics and genomics in Bulgarian and in English.
Since 2010, the research in Robert Penchovsky's laboratory was supported by 16 grants, 11 of which Dr. Penchovsky has been a project leader. Prof. Robert Penchovsky has won grants for over 270 000 EUR as a project leader.
Robert is fluent in English and uses German and Russian.
Robert's research keywords: ribozymes, riboswitches, bioinformatics, biosensors, microfluidics, DNA/RNA computing, RNA synthetic biology, and rational drug design.
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Penchovsky/...ResearchGate
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9502-3421...ORCID
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-penchovsky-348ab7122/...LinkedIn
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https://ras.nacid.bg/dissertation-preview/32000...NACID