Violeta Valcheva is an Associate Professor at The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2009, she received her Ph.D. and conducted the first comprehensive study of molecular characterization and drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Bulgaria. The main research topics of her work are molecular epidemiology, the phylogeny, and evolution of mycobacteria, bioinformatics, bacterial pathogenesis and virulence; newly synthesized compounds with chemical and natural products, drug development, pharmacokinetics, anti-TB chemotherapy. She gained experience and good qualifications in international institutions (France, Russia, China, and Japan) with visible results (projects, publications, and establishing new innovations and collaborations). She is responsible for public relations for the SAIM and responsible for the scientific relation for the SAIM in the International Pasteur Network. She was a secretary of the Microbiology department in the Bulgarian Union of Scientists in the period of 2009-2013.