Senior Asst. Prof. Ivan P. Petrov, PhD in Old Church Slavonic language, teaches Latin for Medical Purpouses and Bulgarian language for foreigners in the Department for Languages and Specialized training in the Medical University – Plovdiv. He is alumnus of the BA programme in Classics, as well as the MA programmes of Old Church Slavonic studies and Slavic studies (with Polish studies as a main focus). His research is focused on the comparative and historical studies of the Indo-European languages, Patristics and the Medieval Greek and Cyrillic Paleography.