My first name is usually confused with Rumina, Romina, Rumania or Romania. Just to clarify: Romania is a country — I’m not. Still, I’m always curious to hear new creative variations people come up with.🙂
Румяна Димова
A Kind of CV
2026
Awarded the title of Professor (außerplanmäßige Professorin), University of Potsdam
2025
Avanti / EBSA Award in recognition of pioneering development work on giant unilamellar vesicles, read more
2024-2028
Coordinator of ComeInCell MSCA Doctoral Network on Integrative Synthetic Cell Design, read more
2023
Thomas E. Thompson award of the Biophysical Society for her work on membrane rigidity and tension, membrane curvature and membranes in electric fields
2021
Liesegang Prize of the German Colloid Society in recognition of her work on lipid bilayers and biomembranes
2016-2019
Elected as Scientific Representative of Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
2015
Elected as the 2017 Chair of the Membrane Structure and Assembly Subgroup of the Biophysical Society
Privatdozent in Biophysics at Potsdam University, Germany
2012
Habilitation in Biophysics at the University of Potsdam
Since 2005
Staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Since 2000
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
2000
Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
1999
PhD, Bordeaux University, France (in collaboration with Sofia University, Bulgaria)
1997
Second MSc degree within the framework of the international post-graduate program in “Separation processes in the industry and environmental protection”, Sofia University and Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (Bordeaux)
1995
MSc degree in Theoretical chemistry and chemical physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria
