welcome to my virtual home! It’s a bit messy, which you should excuse me for, as like all other busy scientist-to-be I don’t have time (and will) to tidy up and put things in order.

My name is Hristo Iliev but most friends call me iCaci. I am a last year PhD student in atomic and molecular physics at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, where I’m dealing with computer simulations of nanoscale carbon objects. As you’ve probably guessed from the name of this site, I am a little obsessed with computers, especially big ones, which are huge part of my life. I specialise in High Performance Computing and swing between obfuscated FORTRAN code and cryptic commands in evil UNIX-like environments. I’ve also built and still maintain several computational clusters, including the 96-core Physon (sorry, Bulgarian only site) of my home faculty. Unfortunately being a scientist in Bulgaria does not quite pay off, so I have an additional IT job — writing commercial software in silly OO languages like C#. Being kind of proud of some things I’ve done in the past I’ve even set up a neat CV page.

I blog occasionally since 2004, mostly in Bulgarian. Unfortunately I lost my database some time ago, but you can find my recent verbiage in the blog section and you can even subscribe to my feeds (links are in the right nav bar). But beware — there are mostly mental garbage, rants and trivial observations over life there. I used to post more frequently on my Twitter account, but since I’m not a true Zen master I now refrain from posting there.

Being a humble scientist-to-be and tech guru, I sometimes share tiny bits of my vast knowledge in the articles section. And I even write in English there.

Oh, and I love cats. And I mean, I love cats — I make you cheezburger if you is kitteh :)

Enjoy your stay and drop me a line if you’d like.