Dr Nikolov is a Research Fellow in Image Processing at the University of Bristol, UK. His research interests over the years have spanned several areas including image analysis, image fusion, computer graphics, new methods for data visualisation and navigation, the use of gaze-tracking and VR in 2-D and 3-D image analysis and understanding, and the construction of attentive and interactive information displays. In the last 15 years he has participated in many international and national research projects in Austria, Portugal, Bulgaria and the UK, in image processing, analytical data processing, medical imaging, image fusion, and gaze-contingent data visualisation and analysis. He has published more than 50 refereed or invited papers, including four invited book chapters, and also numerous technical reports in these areas. He has also given many invited lectures around the world on image processing, image fusion and information visualisation. From 2003 until 2006 Dr Nikolov was the Lead Researcher of the Bristol team (7 people across three departments) in the UK Data and Information Fusion Defence Technology Centre (
www.difdtc.com) project ‘Image and Video Sensor Fusion’. He is the creator and co-ordinator of The Online Resource for Research in Image Fusion (
www.imagefusion.org) and The Online Archive of Scanpath Data (
www.scanpaths.org), together with Dr Jeff Pelz from RIT, USA. Dr Nikolov is a member of the editorial board of the Information Fusion journal (Elsevier) and a guest editor of a recent special issue of this journal on “Image Fusion: Advances in the State-of-the-Art”. He is a member of the British Machine Vision Association, the Applied Vision Association, the International Society of Information Fusion, ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE. Over the years Dr Nikolov has undertaken consultancies for a number of major European companies and has taken part in the development of various software systems. Dr Nikolov is also a Founder and Head of Research of Attentive Displays Ltd. (
www.attentivedisplays.com), a new start-up company specialising in designing and developing attentive and interactive information displays and interfaces for public spaces.