Position - Professor, Dr., Head of Molecular Biology Laboratory; Department of Breeding, Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute (VCRI); Education: PhD, 2000, Scientific Specialty: 04.01.14. “Plant crops and biotechnologies”, PhD thesis: “Application of protein profiles for establishment of genetic diversity of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Bulgaria”; Higher Education: Sofia University “St. Kliment Оhridski”, Faculty of Biology, Biologist; Bulgaria; Secondary Education / Languages: Mother language: Bulgarian; French Language School “Romain Rolland”, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria; French, Spanish and Russian languages; Certificate for advanced learning under Cambridge System - English language; Specializations: 12 - Belgium, Austria, Israel, Germany, Luxembourg, etc.; Expert of IAEA - 10 expert missions; Lecturer at 2 universities; Editor of books - Wageningen publisher, Springer Nature publisher; Publications - more than 130; Scientific books - 8 (Wageningen, Springer). Guest editor - Frontiers in Genetics.