DEGREES AWARDED:

• M. S. - University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria, 1988
• Ph.D. - SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 1997

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

• Experimental Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

AWARDS:

Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator  2004
Alfred P.Sloan Fellow 2007

CURRENT APPOINTMENT:

• 2003-Present : Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

• 1989-1991 : Research Assistant, Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  
• 1997-2000 : Research Associate, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
  
• 2000-2001 : Research Staff Scientist, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
  
• 2001-2003 : Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY
  

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• American Physical Society

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Teaching:
  
• PHYS 223 Thermal Physics
• PHYS 255 Introduction to Particle Physics
• PHYS 225a Introduction to Quantum Physics and Applications
• Conference and workshop organizing committees
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• Strangeness and Exotica, May14, 2004, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• International Organizing Committee of Hot Quarks 2004, July 18-24, Taos Valley, New Mexico, Hot Quarks 2006
  
• Nuclear Physics Seminar Series at Brookhaven National Lab , 2002 - 2003
• Nuclear and Particle Physics seminar series, Dept. of Phys.And Astr., Vanderbilt, 2004 - ongoing
• Local Organizing Committee of the 8^th International Wigner Symposium, May 27-30 at CUNY, New York City.
• RHIC/AGS User Executive commitee: 2005-present
  
• Convener of PHENIX hadron physics working group: 2001 - 2004
• PHENIX Speakers Bureau member: 2004 - 2005
  
• Undergraduate Program Committee: 2003- present
  

RECENT INVITED TALKS:

• "Jet Quenching and the Baryon Puzzle at RHIC", Nuclear Physics Division Colloquium, Oakridge National Lab, Aug 19, 2004
•  “Creation and Flow of identified hadrons at RHIC”, XXXIV International Symposium on Multi-particle Dynamics, 26 July – 1 August, 2004, Sonoma County, California, USA

• "Baryon Dynamics at RHIC: System size and centrality dependence” Workshop on Creation and Flow of Baryons in Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions, ECT (Trento),  3-7 May, 2004

• " Scaling Properties of Identified hadron Production in dAu and AuAu collisions at RHIC",  XX Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Trelawny Beach, Jamaica, March 2004

• “Identified hadron spectra from pp,dA and AA collisions”, plenary invited  talk at Quark Matter 2004, The Seventeenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Oakland, CA, January 11-17,2004  http://qm2004.lbl.gov
• “Jet Quenching at RHIC” ,invited talk at XXXVIIIth Rencontres De Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions,March 22-29, 2003; Les Arcs, Savoie, France

http://moriond.in2p3.fr/QCD/2003/

• “How ``Strange'' is High pt Physics at RHIC?”,invited talk at the 7^th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, March 12-17, 2003, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina  (http://www.phy.duke.edu/SQM2003) 

• “PHENIX and the Quest for Quark-gluon Plasma Ashes” Physics Department Colloquium given at Vanderbilt University on Feb 27,2003, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• “Hadron Spectra and Yields: Experimental Overview”, invited talk at INT/RHIC Winter Workshop on First Two Years of RHIC:Theory versus Experiment. Dec.13-15, 2002; Insitute for Nuclear Theory, Seatle, Washington

• “Hadron Production at RHIC: Where is the Soft  to Hard Transition?”,

plenary talk at the Fall APS-DNP meeting, Oct. 9-12, 2002, East Lansing, Michigan 

• “Ratios of Identified Particles at high pt”, invited talk at the workshop

http://skipper.physics.sunysb.edu/highpt/

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Scaling properties of proton and anti-proton production in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions” PHENIX collaboration, S.S. Adler et al.,  Phys. Rev. Lett 91, 172301 (2003)  arXiv: nucl-ex/0305036
• “Absence of Suppression in Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV d+Au Collisions" PHENIX collaboration, S.S. Adler et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072303 (2003), arXiv:nucl-ex/0306021
• “Elliptic Flow of Identified Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV”, PHENIX collaboration, S.S. Adler et al, Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 182301, arXiv: nucl-ex/0305013
• “Identified Charged Particle Spectra and Yields in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV” PHENIX collaboration,  S. S. Adler et al., accepted for publication in Physical Review C, arXiv: nucl-ex/0307022
•  “Centrality dependence of pi+-, K+-, p and pbar production from sqrt(s)=130 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC”, PHENIX collaboration, K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 242301 (2002).