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Ekaterina Batchvarova
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Ekaterina Batchvarova
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Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 15 November 2017, Professor Ekaterina Batchvarova is a leading Bulgarian atmospheric scientist and Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, whose career has advanced understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer and its role in weather, climate, and air-quality systems. A longtime researcher at the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, she currently serves as Director of the Climate, Atmosphere and Water Research Institute (CAWRI-BAS) and President of the Bulgarian Meteorological Society. Her international academic leadership includes membership of the Steering Committee of HARMO (Harmonization within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes) and service on the editorial board of Climate, Atmosphere, and Water Research. Through sustained collaboration with the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark and participation in major European field experiments such as BUBBLE, she has contributed to establishing the Bulgarian school of boundary-layer meteorology as an internationally recognised centre of expertise.

Professor Batchvarova’s research focuses on the physics of the atmospheric boundary layer, particularly mixed-layer dynamics, internal boundary-layer development over coastal and heterogeneous terrain, and the extension of meteorological profiles for operational weather and air-quality modelling. The analytical and applied models for daytime mixed-layer growth and coastal internal boundary-layer development that she developed with Sven-Erik Gryning have become established references in the field, supporting regulatory air-quality assessments in Europe and beyond. She has authored 82 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 21 and more than 1,100 citations, reflecting a sustained combination of theoretical insight and practical relevance. Her representative publications in Boundary-Layer Meteorology, the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, and Theoretical and Applied Climatology address mixed-layer growth and entrainment, coastal internal boundary layers, wind-profile extension, and urban boundary-layer meteorology, collectively reflecting a career dedicated to connecting fundamental atmospheric physics with the operational requirements of environmental prediction and protection.