Sofia festival brings new discoveries to the public

Speakers talk about astronomy, maths and marine geology in an audience-friendly way

published on 5/9/24 7:30 AM

Photo: Sofia Tech Park

120 scientists from Bulgaria and 10 countries around the world are taking part in the Sofia Science Festival. The forum opens today and runs until May 12 at the Sofia Tech Park.

Organisers say that internationally renowned speakers will share their knowledge in a popular and audience-friendly format. Among them: a Belgian cosmologist who worked with Stephen Hawking; a French astronomer from the team that discovered an ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas; Spanish stand-up mathematicians; a Ukrainian meteorologist; an Antarctic explorer; an American physicist from the NASA team that explored the asteroid Osiris-Rex; an Austrian radiation researcher; an archaeologist and a marine geologist from the National Geographic Explorers programme from Turkey and Israel.

The festival is organised by the Beautiful Science Foundation and is open to anyone who shares a curiosity about the achievements that drive humanity forward.

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