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Prof. Dr Pavel Stoev, Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
Prof. Dr Pavel Stoev, Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia

Pavel Stoev

(Professor Dr)
phone: (+359 2) 9885116 (ext. 685); e-mail:

Born: 5 December 1973, Targovishte.
Education: Sofia University (1998).
Speciality: zoologist.

Research interests


Taxonomy of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda); Biospeleology; Herpetology; Cybertaxonomy; Open Science publishing methods.

Current projects


New Callipodida from Europe, Africa and Asia
Cave fauna of Koytendag, Turkmenistan
Lithobiomorpha and Geophilomorpha from Tunisia
Towards a common terminology for the morphology of Diplopoda
History of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

PhD students


Darina Bachvarova — Shumen University Konstantin Preslavski
Boyan Vagalinski — Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Angel Dyugmedzhiev — National Museum of Natural History
Emilia Vacheva — National Museum of Natural History

Alumni


Ioanna Felesaki (University of Crete)

Most recent publications


Sendra, A., Fiera, C., Selfa, J., Stoev, P., 2025. Soil campodeids (Diplura, Campodeidae) of Eastern Europe, in Romanian and Bulgarian reliefs. — ZooKeys, 1224: 261—282. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1224.137935

Nguyen, A. D., Stoev, P., Vu, T. T. T., 2025. Integrative data reveal a new millipede species of Sinocallipus Zhang, 1993 (Callipodida, Sinocallipodidae) from Vietnam, with notes on its phylogeny. — Zoosystematics and Evolution, 101 (1): 69—80. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.138716

Tolchkov, V., Hodzhev, Y., Tsafarova, B., Nenova, R., Mikov, O., Simov, N., Slavov, G., Nedyalkov, N., Langurov, M., Bekchiev, R., Stoev, P., Nikolova M., Panaiotov, S., 2024. Human pathogens among bats. — Problems of Infectious Parasitic Diseases, 52 (2): 32—38. https://doi.org/10.58395/51hccc30

Ng, J. Y., Liu, H., Masood, M., Farin, R., Messih, M., Perez, A., Aalbersberg, I. J., Alperin, J., Bryson, G,L., Chen, Q., Ehrlich, A., Iorio, A., Meester, W., Willinsky, J., Grudniewicz, A., Cobo, E., Cranston, I., Cress, P. E., Gunn, J., Haynes, R. B., Keenoo, B. S., Marušić, A., Papas, E. R., Purvis, A., de Deus Barreto Segundo, J., Shankar, P. R., Stoev, P., Weisflog, J., Winker, M., Cobey, K. D., Moher, D., 2024. Publisher preferences for a journal transparency tool: A modified three-round Delphi study [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. — F1000Research 2024, 13: 915. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.154408.1

Andreone, F., James, S. A., Li, S., Paul, D. L., Stoev, P., Penev, L., 2024. Enlighten the Marvels: a new journal dedicated to natural history museums, collections and their role in interpreting a changing world. — Natural History Collections and Museomics, 1: 1—7. https://doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.1.142018

Стоев, П., Попов, А., Георгиев, Б., 2024. Националният природонаучен музей: история, колекции, научни изследвания (2020—2024). — Национален природонаучен музей, София, 72 стр. e-ISBN: 978-954-8828-19-2 [PDF]

Triantafyllou, G., Triantaphyllidis, G., Pollani, A., She, J., Dutta, J., St. John, M., Faimali, M., Brouwer, R., Stoev, P., 2023. Editorial: Cleaning litter by developing and applying innovative methods in European seas. — Frontiers in Marine Science, 10: 1232888. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1232888

Stoev, P., Sendra, A., Cabanillas, D., 2023. Quilópodos, depredadres con casi cien pies. — In: Sendra, A. (Coord.) Habitantes de la oscuridad: Fauna Ibero-balear de las cuevas. Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, pp. 353—360.

Nguyen, A. D., Stoev, P., Nguyen, L. T. P., Vu, T. T., 2023. A new species of Paracortina from a Vietnamese cave, with remarkable secondary sexual characters in males (Callipodida, Paracortinidae). — ZooKeys, 1149: 181—195. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1149.99651

Lumbsch, H. T., Nimis, P.L., Begerow, D., Stoev, P., Penev, L., 2023. MycoKeys issue 100: progress and innovation to enhance rapid publication in fungal systematics. — MycoKeys, 100: 1—4. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.100.115344


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