Dr. Alexander Arsov is an assistant professor in the "Microbial Genetics" Laboratory of the Department of General Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Sofia University's "St. Kl. Ohridski" Faculty of Biology, Molecular Biology (Bachelor), and Biochemistry (MSc). He received his PhD in 2011 from the Technical University of Dresden, Faculty of Medicine. His interests and skills are in molecular biology: cloning of genes in shuttle vectors, heterologous expression of proteins, and the study of factors affecting enzyme activity.