Associate Professor Yulian Dimitrov Tumbarski, DVM, PhD, is a researcher and academic staff member at the University of Food Technologies – Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in the Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology. He graduated as a Master of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 2001 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Trakia University, Stara Zagora. In 2013, he obtained a PhD degree in Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Prevention of Infectious Diseases in Animals from the National Diagnostic and Research Veterinary Medical Institute “Prof. Dr. Georgi Pavlov” in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since July 2021, he has held the position of Associate Professor at the UFT - Plovdiv. His main research areas include food technologies, veterinary-sanitary control of foods of animal origin, functional foods and healthy nutrition, microbiology, virology, and biologically active compounds of plant and animal origin. He has participated in several international specializations under the Erasmus+ programme at the University of Padua, Italy (2016–2019, 2022) and at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland (2024). He has authored a total of 106 scientific publications, 60 of which are in journals with impact factor or impact rank. His work has received 892 citations, with an h-index of 14 (Scopus/Web of Science). Over the last five years, he has published 50 papers, 30 of them in indexed journals, with 400 citations during this period.