Assoc. Prof. Maria Atanassova obtained her M.Sc. (1998), Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (2003) and DSc (2022) at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy-Sofia. Since 1999, she has worked at the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, teaching diverse chemical courses: Introduction to General Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Chemical Calculations, Coordination Chemistry for MSc students, and practical laboratory works in General, Inorganic, and Coordination Chemistry. Dr. Atanassova was an affiliate member of IUPAC (2005–2011), a national representative in Division Committee VIII of IUPAC: Chemical Nomenclature and Structural Representation 2018–2025, and a voluntary member of the Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data of Analytical Division V since 2015. Her research interests include the synergistic solvent extraction and coordination chemistry of lanthanoids, separation chemistry, and interfacial field chemistry with ionic liquids.