Irina Yordanova Georgieva is a PhD student at IBPhBME-BAS. She obtained her Master's degree in Molecular Bioengineering (2019) at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology (2017) from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. Irina worked as a student intern at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, and at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, and as an Amgen summer school scholar at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. During her Bachelor studies, she also worked at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering in Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently, Irina is interested in angiogenesis under normal and pathological conditions in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, including the function of extracellular vesicles in this process. Her Master's thesis involved the development of an optogenetically controlled system that utilized Cas13a as a detector for RNA transcripts. Irina is a DAAD alumni for Master's degree studies.