Kiril Mishev currently works at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He received his M.Sc. in Plant Physiology at the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, Bulgaria from 2003 to 2004 and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology at the Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. He has been a member of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria and the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB). His research interests included plant endomembrane trafficking, plant hormone signal transduction, chemical genetics, regulation of the chloroplast gene expression and functional organization of the photosynthetic apparatus.