Meglena Kitanova works in the Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in Sofia, Bulgaria as an Assistant Professor. She got an MSc (Molecular Biology) from the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 2001, and earned a Ph.D. from the same university in 2011. Her training courses and fellowships include: European Networking Summer School (ENSS), “Plant Еpigenetics”, European Science Foundation, Institute Of Plant Genetics And Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany (20–24 September 2010); Regional Training Course, "Cytogenetics And In Vitro Techniques In Mutagenesis of Crop Plants And Radiation-Mediated Reconstruction Of Plant Genome”, IAEA, Institute of Genetics “Acad. Doncho Kostov”, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria (2–13 November 2009); and Training Course “Laboratory Methods of Molecular Genetics”, Institut fuer Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August Universitaet, Goettingen, Germany (The Socrates/Erasmus Fellowship—March–August, 2003). Her research interests are: (1) plant cytogenetics, genome analysis and chromosome identification; (2) plant epigenetics, chromatin organization and gene expression, non-coding RNAs, siRNAs; (3) plant molecular genetics, gene expression and regulation of gene activity. Her scientific output includes 13 publications in various journals with an h-index of 2 (Scopus, April 2024).