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Responsibilities at Versita:

• Regional Geology of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula;
• Structural Geology of Highly Deformed Rocks, and Strain Analysis;
  
• Petrology and Radiogeochronology;
  
• Geotectonics and Geodynamics;
  
• Triassic, Jurassic and Palaeogene Stratigraphy;
  
• Late Alpine block tectonics;
  
• Neotectonics
  
  

Recent publications:

R. Nakov, T. Todorov, P. Tchoumatchenco, I. Zagorchev, S. Petroussenko, D. Tronkov, D. Synniovsky:
A Geosites framework list for Bulgaria - a step to the protection and conservation of the national geological heritage.
in: Second Conference on Geoheritage of Serbia, (2005), pp. 89-94

I. Zagorchev, D. Milovanovic:
Deformations and metamorphism in the eastern parts of the Serbo-Macedonian Massif. - in: Proceedings 18th Congress Carp.-Balkan Geol. Assoc., Belgrade, (2006), pp.  670-673

I.  Zagorchev, K. Stoykova, M. Ivanov:
New data on the Late Cretaceous tectonics and geodynamics in the eastern parts of the Balkan Peninsula. In: Proceedings 18th Congress Carp.
Balkan Geol. Assoc., Belgrade, (2006), pp. 674-677

P. Tchoumatchenco, K. Budurov, I. Zagorchev, M. Yaneva, E. Koleva-Rekalova:
The Triassic and Jurassic of East Stara Planina (Bulgaria) and South Crimea (Gorniy Krim, Ukraine) - an essay of correlation.
C.-r. Acad. Bulg. Sci., 59, 12, (2006), pp. 1265-1274

I. Zagorchev:
Krayshtids (Kraistiden) 70 years later: Myth or Reality?
Geologica Balcanica, 35, (2006), 3-4, pp. 63-90

I. Zagorchev, K. Budurov:
Stratigraphic problems of the Moesian Group (Upper Triassic, peri-Tethyan type), Bulgaria.
Geologica Balcanica, 36, 1, (2007), pp. 31-53

I. Zagorchev:
Late Cenozoic development of the Strouma and Mesta fluviolacustrine systems, SW Bulgaria and northern Greece.
Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, (2007), pp. 2783-2800