Daria Vladikova is Professor in Electrochemistry and Executive Director of the H2start Center of Excellence on Hydrogen Technologies towards Trakia University. She has a PhD in Solid State Chemistry and a D.Sc. in Electrochemistry. She is working in the field of fuel cells and batteries testing and diagnostics and deployment of hydrogen technologies. She is the author of more than 150 scientific publications with over 1000 citations. She has been awarded with Herman Gӧhr Award by the European Fuel Cell Forum.
Prof. Vladikova is founder of the Bulgarian Hydrogen, Fuel Cell and Energy Storage Association and Chairs its Scientific Committee. She is also Member of the Clean Hydrogen Alliance (CHA) Round Table for Green Hydrogen Production and of the SET Plann Implementation Working Group (IWG) on Hydrogen.