Galya Staneva, Deputy Director of the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBPhBME), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). She is a professor in Biophysics. Her main research interests are in the field of membrane biochemistry and biophysics. She has been tackling a variety of open questions in cell membrane biochemistry and biophysics and bottom-up approach by inventing biomimetic membranes as a tool to decipher cell membrane organization and processes in normal and pathological conditions. Her main contributions reveal the connection between membrane microdomain organization and functioning in Alzheimer’s diseases, Ageing, Cancer, Smith-Lempli-Opitz Syndroms etc. Galya Staneva obtained her PhD at Pierre et Marie Curie University, France in 2004. Afterwards, she joined the Saint Antoine Hospital, INSERM-France as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2006, she was awarded with a Diploma of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for achievements in the field of Biophysics of biological membranes.