Zahari Zlatev received his MS from the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and his PhD from St. Petersburg University (Russia). Since 1980, he has been a senior scientist and a project leader (long-range transport modeling) at the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), University of Aarhus, Roskilde, Denmark. He developed the Unified Danish Eulerian Model (UNI-DEM), which has been used in many environmental studies and scientific projects.

His main areas of interest are large-scale air pollution modeling, the damaging effects of high pollution levels on crops and human health, scientific computing, parallel computation, numerical analysis, applied mathematics, and the influence of biogenic emissions on high ozone levels.

Zlatev has published six monographs (two with Kluwer, two with Springer, one with MIR Publishers, and one with Elsevier). He has been the editor of five proceedings volumes, and has published 109 papers in international journals, 151 papers in the proceedings of international conferences, and more than 200 institutional reports. He has been involved in training young specialists, including graduate and PhD students. He has organized five international conferences and 15 mini-symposia at international conferences. He has been an invited speaker at 53 international conferences and on the organizing committees of many international workshops and conferences.

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