PERSONAL
 

• Name : Bojan Šoptrajanov
• Date and place of birth : January 26, 1937, Cacak
• Citizenship : Macedonian
• Marital status : Married, two children, one grandson

• Professor of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia

EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC TRAINING
 

• Undergraduate studies in Chemistry : University of Skopje, 1955–1960
• Graduate studies in Chemistry : Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. 1964–1965
• Doctoral degree in chemical sciences : 1973, University of Skopje

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
 

• Assistant-lecturer : University of Skopje, 1960–1969
• Docent (assistant professor) : University of Skopje, 1969–1974
• Associate professor : University of Skopje, 1974–1978
• Full professor : 1978–
• Vice president (pro-rector) for education and research of the Cyril and Methodius University  in Skopje, 1988–1990
• Member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1994–

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, PUBLICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS
 

• Main area of research : Structural Chemistry (particularly vibrational spectroscopy)
• Other areas of research interest : Systems of scientific information, use of com-pu-ters in education, problems of education in general
• Principal investigator : A number of projects within Macedonia and former Yugoslavia, and 5 projects for cooperation in science (with colleagues from Uppsala, Sweden, London, UK, Sofia, Bulgaria and Halle, Germany)
• Papers : Approximately 150 scientific and professional papers (approximately two thirds of them pub-lished in international journals)
• Scientific communications : Approximately 265 communications at scientific meetings (around 100 at international conferences)
• Invited speaker : Plenary lecturer at scientific meetings in Macedonia, former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and keynote speaker at Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale
• Lectures abroad : In Uppsala, London, Halle, Siegen
• Scientific journals : Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, member of the editorial boards of two Yugoslav journals (Hemijska industrija, Yugoslav Chemical Papers)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 

• Subjects taught (for undergraduate or graduate students in Skopje, Štip and Leskovac) : Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopic Applications of Group Theory, Spectroscopic Methods for Determi-na-tion of Molecular Structures, Methodology of Che-mistry Teaching, Methodology of Research
• Mentor of seven doctoral candidates (five are already university teachers) and a number of graduate students
• Author of several highschool textbooks in Chemistry and texts for university students

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
 

• President of the scientific committee : At four all-Yugoslav congresses
• Other organizational activities : Member of the organizing and scientific committees of a number of meetings (one international), mainly in Chemistry

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
 

• Positions held : Vice president of the Union of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, President of the Commission for Spectroscopy of the Union of the Chemical Societies of Yugoslavia, President of the Union of the Chemical Societies of Yugoslavia, others .
• Presently – president of the Macedonian Chemical Society (Sojuz na hemicarite i tehnolozite na Makedonija)