2007-2010: NSF grant "RUI: Galactic Spiral Structure Reassessment: a precision photometry approach to complete homogeneous samples"

2002-2008: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Awards

 1999: NATO/Danish Natural Science Research Council Senior Visiting Fellowship (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics)

  1998: NATO/Royal Society Advanced Fellowship (University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK)

 1998: NATO collaborative grant (University of Sofia, Copenhagen Astronomical Observatory and Athens Observatory): ``Stellar population in the LMC galaxy''

 1997: Danish Government Visiting Fellowship (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics)

 1996: IAU Commission 38 travel grant 1996: Inter University Center of Astronomy and Astrophysics Visiting Fellowship (Pune, India)

 1996: DAAD grant (University of Bonn and Hoher List Observatory, Germany)

 1996: Bulgarian National Science Foundation: Project grant No F617/1996: Stellar Clusters in the Galaxies of the Local Group

 1994, 91: Bulgarian National Science Foundation: Travel grants for carrying out observational program at the South African Astronomical Observatory

 1991: Third Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics grant