Mimoza Ristova is a university professor, scientist, columnist, novelist, playwright, and human rights advocate. She was born in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, in 1963, and is the mother of three children. She teaches several courses at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, in the field of physics as well as in various multidisciplinary areas.
Her research fields include thin semiconductor films, photovoltaic conversion, electrochemical cells for spontaneous water splitting, electrochromic cells, amorphous silicon, pixel detectors, selective coatings for thermal solar collectors, forensic science, Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear interactions, radiation protection, and more. In the academic year 2000/01, she was a postdoctoral fellow under the NATO “Science for Peace” program at Texas A&M University in the USA. In 2014, she was a Fulbright visiting professor/researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, USA. In 2020, she spent a one-year research stay at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, working on the development phase of SEEIIST, the future “small CERN” for the Balkans.
Ristova is the author of university textbooks in Electromagnetism and Electronics and a co-author of several physics textbooks for primary and secondary education. She has published over 120 scientific papers, more than 80 of which are in journals with an impact factor. In 2017, she registered a U.S. patent for an invention of a device for spontaneous water splitting. In the spring of 2017, she was named “Scientist of the Year” at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University.
She has also produced several literary works, including novels, a collection of short stories, and plays. Among her most well-known titles are “Oscar for the Statuette Mochko,” “Rasho Saves the World,” “A Series of Mothers,” “The Dog,” “The Warsaw Doe,” “The Last Conversation Between Dafinka and Dafinka,” and others.
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ORCID: 0000-0002-8042-8087