curriculum
vitae
Personal information:
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Name |
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Neda Vladimirova Zareva-Toncheva |
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Address |
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Sofia 1618; Angelov vrah Str. 28A |
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Telephone |
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Home: 555 349; Cell phone: 098 911 410 |
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Social status |
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Married; one child |
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E-mail |
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Nationality |
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Bulgarian |
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Date of birth |
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08.08.1971 |
Work experience:
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• Dates (from –
to) |
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2001 – 2003 |
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• Employer |
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Laboratory
for Experimental Psychology; Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian
University, Sofia |
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• Type of business or sector |
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Scientific research sector |
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• Occupation or position held |
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Project Manager |
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• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Defining of research problems; Establishing
research objectives; Determining the research design and selecting the
research methodsi; Selecting and
training team members; Scheduling tasks; Planning, designing and running
experiments; Coordinating and controlling data collection and analysis Major projects: 1.”Integration of Memory
and Reasoning” 2.
“Blending of Memory Episodes as Result of Analogical Problem Solving” |
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• Dates (from –
to) |
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2002 - 2003 |
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• Employer |
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Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology; New
Bulgarian University; Sofia |
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• Type of business or sector |
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Academic sector |
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• Occupation or position held |
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Course Lecturer |
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• Main activities and
responsibilities |
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Leading the student seminar for the Masters program
in Cognitive Science; teaching course COG330 “Memory and Learning”, 30 lecture hours |
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• Dates (from – to) |
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2002 - 2003 |
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• Employer |
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Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology; New
Bulgarian University; Sofia |
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• Type of business or sector |
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Academic sector |
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• Occupation or position held |
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Teaching Assistant |
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• Main activities and
responsibilities |
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Assistance in leading of Course COG502 “Thinking,
Reasoning and Problem Solving”; and Course COG506 “Cognitive Modelling
-Symbol Approach” |
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• Dates (from – to) |
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1999 - 2001 |
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• Employer |
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Laboratory for Experimental Psychology; Center for
Cognitive Science; New Bulgarian University; Sofia |
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• Type of business or sector |
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Scientific research sector |
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• Occupation or position held |
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Research Assistant |
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• Main activities and
responsibilities |
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Running experiments (data collecting); Coding data;
Data analysis Major projects: 1.”Context effects on Problem Solving and Decision
Making” 2.”Psycholinguistics; Cross-linguistics Studies in
Aphasia – computational models and experimentation” 3.”Child Speech Corpus” |
Education
and training:
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• Dates (from – to) |
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1985 - 1990 |
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• Name and type of organisation
providing education and training |
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German Gymnasium, Sofia |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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- |
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• Title of qualification awarded |
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Secondary
school degree |
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• Dates (from – to) |
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1991 -
1994 |
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• Name and type of organization
providing education and training |
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The Philology Faculty; University of Vienna, Austria |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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German Philology |
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• Title of qualification awarded |
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Degree not completed |
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• Dates (from – to) |
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1994 - 1999 |
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• Name and type of organization
providing education and training |
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Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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Psychology |
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• Title of qualification awarded |
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Bachelor in Psychology Title of Bachelor Thesis: Anxiety and Aggression with
Pregnant Woman |
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• Dates (from – to) |
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1999 - 2001 |
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• Name and type of organization
providing education and training |
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Central and East European Center for Cognitive
Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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Cognitive Science |
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• Title of qualification awarded |
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Master of Science Title of Master Thesis: Integration of Memory and
Reasoning: Episode Blending as Result of Analogical Problem Solving; presented at the 8th
International Summer School in Cognitive Science, 2001, Sofia |
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• Dates (from – to) |
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2001 - 2003 |
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• Name and type of organization
providing education and training |
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Central and East European Center for Cognitive
Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia |
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• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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Cognitive Science |
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• Title of qualification awarded |
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Doctor of Science Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Blending of Dissimilar
Episodes as Result of Analogy-Making; presented at the 10th
International Summer School in Cognitive Science, 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria External reviewers: 1.Dr. Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands) 2.Dr. William Hirst (New school for Social
Research, NY, USA) 3.Dr. Jonathan Schooler (University of Pittsburgh, USA) |
Personal skills and
competences
Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by
formal certificates and diplomas.
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Mother tongue |
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Bulgarian |
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Other
languages |
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German |
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• Reading skills |
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[ Indicate level: excellent ] |
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• Writing skills |
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[ Indicate level: excellent ] |
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• Verbal skills |
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[ Indicate level: excellent ] |
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English |
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• Reading skills |
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[ Indicate level: excellent ] |
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• Writing skills |
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[ Indicate level: excellent ] |
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• Verbal skills |
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[ Indicate level: excellent ] |
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Russ ian |
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• Reading skills |
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[ Indicate level: good ] |
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• Writing skills |
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[ Indicate level: good ] |
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• Verbal skills |
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[ Indicate level: good ] |
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Social skills and competences |
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Skills of flexible and soft manners in working with
other people; broad experience in positions as Lecturer and
Project manager, where team working is essential and communication is very
important; broad experience
in multicultural environments |
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Organisational skills
and competences . |
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Broad experience in coordination and administration
of people and projects; good
organizational skills in all-round working environment duties |
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Technical skills and competences |
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MS Windows’*, Mac OS’* MS Word; MS Excel; MS Power Point SPSS STATISTICA |
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Artistic skills and competences |
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“Petja Dobarova” award in
creative essay writing recieved on the National Bulgarian Olympiad for
Literature in 1991 |
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Driving
licence |
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Category B and M, since 24.02.1995 |
Additional information:
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ACADEMIC AWARDS PUBLICATIONS |
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1999 HESP Award for high academic
achievements 1999 CEEPUS Scholarship for
1-month specialization at the Central Bucharest University, Bucharest,
Rumania - Department of Philosophy of Science 2000 CEEPUS Scholarship for
1-month specialization at the Central Vienna University, Vienna, Austria -
Department of Philosophy of Science 2001 ERASMUS/SOCRAT
Scholarship for 4-month specialization at the Central and Capadistrian
University of Athens, Athens, Greece - Department of Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence 2003
Conference in Spatial Cognition, Badzwischenahn, Germany – Department
of Informatics 1.Kokinov,
B. & Zareva-Toncheva, N. (2001). Episode
Blending as Result of Analogical Problem Solving. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2001
2.Zareva-Toncheva, N. &
Kokinov, B. (2003) Blending of Non-Similar
Episodes as a Result of Analogical Mapping with a Third One. In: Proceeding of the 25th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive science Society 3.Zareva-Toncheva, N. &
Kokinov, B. (2003) Blending of Spatial
Configurations: a Result of Co-activation or Analogical Mapping? In: Kokinov&Hirst (eds.),
Constructive Memory, Sofia: NBU Press |
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