Prof. Valentin Kanavrov is born in 1955 in Varna. Since 2006 he has been Professor of History of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of Southwestern University "Neofit Rilski" - Blagoevgrad; compulsory courses: Gnosology, German Classical Philosophy, Modern Times Philosophy - XIX Century, Virtualist Transcendentalism, Philosophical Hermeneutics; elective courses: Hermeneutics, Systematic Philosophy and others.
- 2001-2006 Associate Professor in Theory of Knowledge at the Philosophical Faculty of Southwestern University "Neofit Rilski" - Blagoevgrad
- 1992-2001 Senior Research Associate in Theory of Knowledge at the Institute of Philosophy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1987-1992 Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1987 researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1983-1986 PhD assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1982-1983 assistant professor of philosophy at UNWE Sofia
