Svilen Bobev is a Professor of Solid-State and Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware. He received his M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Sofia in 1995, and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 2002. He joined the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in 2004, then served as an Associate Professor (2010–2015) and as the Director of Graduate Studies and the Assistant Chair (2011–2015), and was promoted to Professor in 2015. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society; the Materials Research Society; SigmaXi, the Scientific Research Honor Society; and the American Crystallographic Association. His main research interests include the synthesis and structural characterization of new solid-state materials; structure–property relationships in intermetallic compounds; thermoelectrics; magnetism; superconductivity; phase transitions; and single-crystal and powder diffraction.