Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Ressourcenökonomie

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Department of Agricultural Economics
Division of Resource Economics
Philippstr. 13, Haus 12

D-10099 Berlin

Germany

Phone

+49-30-2093-6722

Fax

+49-30-2093-6339

Email

violeta_dirimanova (at) yahoo.com

Present ongoing research interests and activities focus on (1) Institutional changes on land use after transformation process in Bulgaria; (2) Impact of multifunctional agriculture on rural area in Bulgaria; (3) Landscape governance; (4) Rural development in Bulgaria. Conceptual interests are focused on role of institutions in rural development and institutional changes on land use (other resources) in Bulgaria. Previous research interest focused on agrarian reform in Bulgaria during transition and the impact on land fragmentation in Bulgaria on (1) property rights, (2) land markets - sale and rental markets, and (3) agricultural contracting. Implementation of case studies. Background in economics, environmental and resource economics, institutional economics and political economy, land management and farm management.

Since 04.09

Humboldt University of Berlin, Division of Resource Economics

Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences

Visiting Post-Doc for 8^th months

Working for the project: “Socio-economic and Ecological Impact of Multifunctional Agriculture on Rural Development in North-Eastern Bulgaria” funded by Ministry of Education and Science.

10.07 - 04.09

Agricultural University of Plovdiv

Faculty of Economics, Lecturer at the Department Management and Marketing

04.04 - 09.07

Humboldt University of Berlin, Division of Resource Economics

Department for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences,

PhD student funded by IDARI (Integrated Development in Agricultural and Rural Institutions) project

07.03 – 03.04

National University of Ireland, Galway

Department of Economics

PhD student funded by IDARI project

01.00 - 07.03

Agricultural University of Plovdiv

Faculty of Economics,

Assistant Professor at the Department Management and Marketing

Ph.D.

Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, Division of Resource Economics

Doctoral dissertation on "Economic Effects on Land Fragmentation: Property Rights, Land Markets and Contracts in Bulgaria", 2004-2008
Award of degree: Dr. rer. agr.

International Education

Perrotis Collegeof Agricultural Studies in the American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece Associate of Science in Agribusiness, 1997-1999

Diploma

Technical University of Sofia - Branch Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Award of degree: Dipl.-Ing., 1991-1996

Lecturer at the Agricultural University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria in course: Farm Management, winter term each academic year.

Lecturer at the MACE (Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe: Tools for the Analysis and Management of Rural Change) training course on “Property in Agricultural and Natural Resources in CEE”, September, 24-28 2007 in Bucharest, Romania, Marie Curie Training Course funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union.

Course: Environmental and Resource Economics III as a visiting lecturer under programme ERASUM (teaching mobility), each academic year in winter term.

12.08 - 04.09

Local expert for project “Review of Public Service Delivery in Agriculture for Bulgaria and Romania”, KP-P111199-KMPD-BB, funded by World Bank and carried out by IAMO, Halle.

09.08 - 09.08

MACE (Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe: Tools for the Analysis and Management of Rural Change) training course on Extension Service in September, 22^nd – 27^th, 2008 in Moscow, Russia

09.07 - 09.07

MACE (Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe: Tools for the Analysis and Management of Rural Change) training course on Property in Agricultural and Natural Resources in CEE, in September, 24^th – 29^th, 2007, Sinaia, Romania

10.06 - 10.06

MACE (Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe: Tools for the Analysis and Management of Rural Change) training course on Cooperatives in Transition Countries in October, 9^th – 13^th, 2006 organized by Humboldt University of Berlin in Sofia, Bulgaria

07.03 - 09.03

Summer semester courses for Ph. D students within Integrated Development of Agricultural and Rural Institution at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, covering the courses Ecological Economics, Innovation Theory, Economics of Conventions, Transaction Cost Economics

08.02 – 09.02

Kiel Summer School of Agricultural and Applied Economics, "Christian Albert" University covering the courses and seminars "Challenger of Agriculture in Transition" and Workshop "Future European Common Agricultural Policy in the New Millennium", Kiel, Germany

06.01 - 08.01

Preparatory Semester for a doctoral program at Centre for Economic and Graduate Education, Charles University covering the courses for Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Applied Mathematics and Academic Writing English, Prague, Czech Republic

Member of European Association of Agricultural Economics

Member of European Society of Environmental Economics