Assistant professor in Laboratory Ecology of Pathogenic Bacteria, Department Infectious Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Graduated in 1987 from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”, MSc in Molecular and Functional Biology, PhD in Water Supply and Sewerage in 2006. Scientific interests in the fields of: water microbiology; drinking water quality; biofilms in drinking water distribution systems; microbial growth potential of materials in contact with drinking water; interspecies interactions in biofilm community; pathogenic bacteria in water and water-associated biofilms; antimicrobial resistance of microbiome in natural water and water under anthropogenic impact.