Natalia Tsoneva Grigorova has been an assistant professor in the Animal Physiology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Trakia University (Bulgaria) since 2012. Before her current appointment, she was an аssistant expert in international relations at the Faculty of Agriculture, Trakia University, Stara Zagora (Bulgaria), and a veterinarian at the Regional Veterinary Service, Varna (Bulgaria). She obtained a Ph.D. in animal and human physiology at the Faculty of Agriculture, Trakia University, in 2010, and she graduated with a Master's degree in veterinary medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Trakia University (Bulgaria), in 2006. Her areas of research interest are developing in vitro and in vivo animal models, describing various aspects of obesity-related abnormalities such as metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and dyslipidemias, and testing natural hypolipidemic agents in the context of obesity and obesity-related disturbances. She is a member of the Management Board of COST Action CA18133, COST Association European Research Network on Signal Transduction.