Vladimir Naydenov teaches in the Scandinavian Studies Section of Sofia Univesrity St. Kliment Ohridski since 2008 and has been assigned to a permanent post since 2013. In 2011, he defended a PhD thesis on the subject Issues in the phonology of the tonal accents in Swedish and their Norwegian and Danish counterparts. His academic interests are in the spheres of diachronic and contrastive linguistics, phonology and morphology. He teaches courses in historical and contrastive grammar of the Scandinavian languages, the theoretical linguistic description of the Swedish language, phonology of the Norwegian language and practical Swedish. In 2014, he received a postdoctoral scholarship from the Swedish Academy as ‘support and a reward for [the recipient’s] contributions to knowledge about the Swedish language’.