Aneliya Kostadinova, PhD, is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBPhBME), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). Her main research interests are in the fields of cell biology, cytotoxicity and the biological activities of natural biomolecules and synthetic nanomaterials; cell polarization; membrane domains; lipid–protein interactions; and the effect of plant extracts on membrane-related organization. Her main contributions have focused on cell–cell and cell–matrix interactions, as well as actin reorganization in normal and cancer cells. She has published more than 45 scientific papers which have been cited more than 200 times, and has an h-index of 5 (Scopus, excluding self-citations of all authors). She obtained her PhD at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBPhBME), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), in 2012. She was also invited to GKSS, Berlin, Germany, several times as a guest scientist, where she investigated artificial polymer membranes as scaffolds for artificial organs, liver, skin, etc.