Kalina Alipieva is a deputy director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the board of the Bulgarian Phytochemical Society and the Scientific Council of the Institute. Her scientific interests are focused on the chemical composition of medicinal plants and their closely related endemics, as well as in vitro cultivated plant species or plant cells/tissue cultures producing pharmaceutically valuable metabolites. Her vast experience includes NMR metabolomic analysis of extracts and structural analysis of different classes of natural compounds. Dr. Alipieva is a Head of the Laboratory “Bioactive extracts, natural compounds and synthetic analogues” in the Centre of Competence project “Sustainable Utilization of Bioresources and Waste from Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Innovative Bioactive Products” funded by the Operational Programme SESG.