The Institute of Metal Science at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is a complex institute that carries out fundamental and applied researches in the field of metal science and heat treatment, casting, crystallization, structure and properties of metals, alloys and composites on metal base, plasticity and fracture of materials, interaction of gases and metal and non-metal materials, production of nitrogen steels under high pressures, physics and mechanics of welding processes, ceramics and composites, thermal electric and magnetohydraulic processes in molten metals, ecological and high tech processes and machines for the production of novel materials and products, etc.

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences