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 and alloys, plasticity and fracture of materials, interaction of gases and metal and non-metal materials, production of nitrogen steels under high pressures, foamed thermoplastics, physics and mechanics of welding processes, ceramics and composites, thermal electric and magnetohydrodinamic processes in molten metals, ecological processes and machines for the production of novel materials and products.