Dr. Aleksandar Shkondrov graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Medical University of Sofia in 2012. Since 2016, he has been an assistant, and since 2018, he has been a chief assistant professor at the Department of Pharmacognosy. He defended his doctoral dissertation in pharmacognosy and phytochemistry on “Phytochemical study of species of the genus Astragalus L.”. He has a specialty in Medicinal Plants and Phytopharmaceuticals, acquired through the Post Graduate Specialisation at Medical University of Sofia. He participates in the training on “Pharmacognosy” for pharmacy students. His research work and contributions mainly focus on areas of pharmaceutical science and practice (phytochemistry, analysis of biologically active substances of natural origin, and pharmacognosy). He is an expert in phytochemistry and pharmacognosy. He is a participant in 18 research projects funded by the Council of Medical Science at Medical University and the National Research Fund at the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. He is a reviewer of many scientific journals reviewed and indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus and Clavirate’s Web of Science. Also, he is a member of several professional organizations and associations, including the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Union, Bulgarian Scientific Society of Pharmacy, Bulgarian Phytochemical Association, Bulgarian Society of Toxicology, and more.