Professional experience

BAS Institute of Solid State Physics appointed him (03.02.1970)

He was assistant (1972-1983) and associate professor in 1983

He created and headed a crystal growth laboratory (from 1983) and Materials Physics Section (from 2009)

He was head of 7 research projects funded by the Scientific Research Fund

1. Crystal growth of high-temperature superconductors (1991)

2. Crystal growth of complex oxide compounds (1991-1993)

3. Photoelectric crystals growth and study (1993-1995)

4. Growth and study of crystals with silenite structure (1996-1998)

5. Growth and study of crystals with variable valence (2000-2002)

6. Growth and study of multiferroic and electromagnetic crystals (2007-2011)

7. Photorefractive crystals as media for volumetric information recording (2007)

8. Growth and study of ferroic crystals (2007)

Prof. Marin Gospodinov was a member of the ISSP Scientific cansel (from 1983)

At the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, he is a member of the Council on Scientific Instrumentation, the Advisory Council on Nanotechnology and the Specialized Council on Condensed Matter Physics

He was a member of the scientific council at the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography and of the faculty council at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the Southwestern University in Blagoevgrad

He was Materials Research Society and Internationa Union of Crystalography member

He was awarded a diploma from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the occasion of his 70 anniversary (2014)

He was awarded the Nikolay Semenovich Kurnikov Memorial Medal by the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (19.11.1985)

ISSP-BAS awardet him with "Georgi Nadjakov" memorial medal

Publications
He published 233 articles and reports (171 articles and 19 reports)

1. B. Kostova, M. Gospodinov, L. Konstantinov, Optical absorption of Bi12SiO20:M (M = Cr, P, Cr+P), American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, 1203, 193-198 (2009)

2. K. Buchkov, R. Todorov, P. Terziyska, M. Gospodinov, V. Strijkova, D. Dimitrov, V. Marinova, Anisotropic Optical Response of WTe2 Single Crystals Studied by Ellipsometric Analysis, Nanomaterials, 11 (9) 2262 (2021)

3. Y. Tseng, Ch. Lin, Sh. Jian, Ph. Le, M. Gospodinov, V. Marinova, D. Dimitrov, Ch. Luo, K. Wu, D. Zhang, J. Juang, Structural and electronic phase transition in Bi2Se2.1Te0.9 under pressure, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (156) 110123 (2021)

4. Y. Sheng, I. Fina, M. Gospodinov, A. Schankler, A. Rappe, J. Fontcubert, , Bulk photovoltaic effect in hexagonal LuMnO3 single crystals, Physical Review B, 10 (18) 184116 (2021)

5. M. Ormanova, D. Dechev, N. Ivanov, G. Mihai, M. Gospodinov, S. Valkov, M. Enachescu, Synthesis and Characterization of Ti-Ta-Shape Memory Surface Alloys Formed by the Electron-Beam Additive Technique, Coating, 12 (5) 678 (2022)

6. L. Camosi, J. Svetlнk, M. Costache, W. Torres, I. Aguirre, V. Marinova, D. Dimitrov, M. Gospodinov, J. Sierr, S. Valenzuela, Resolving spin currents and spin densities generated by charge-spin interconversion in systems with reduced crystal symmetry, 2D Mater. 9 035014 (2022)

7. Y. Sheng, I. Fina, Marin M. Gospodinov, J. Fontcuberta, Bulk photovoltaic effect modulated by ferroelectric polarization back-switching, Applied Physics Letters (120) 242901 (2022)

8. L. Camosi, J. Svetlik, M. Costache, W.Torres, I. Aguirre, V. Marinova, D. Dimitrov, M. Gospodinov, J. Sierra, S. Valenzuela, Resolving spin currents and spin densities generated bycharge-spin interconversion in systems with reduced crystalsymmetry, ArXiv:2212.11691v1 (2022)

9. D. Dimitrov, P. Rafailov, V. Marinova, I. Avramova, D. Kovacheva, I. Dionisiev, N. Minev, M. Gospodinov, NbSe2 Crystals Growth by Bromine Transport, Coating, 13 (5) 947 (2023)