Vera Lyubchova Djeliova, PhD - Research Associate at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. From 1992 to 1997, she studied at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Biology, Speciality: “Biotechnological Processes”, specialization "Genetic and Cellular Engineering". Defense of a diploma thesis at the Department of “Biochemistry” of the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, on the topic “Identification of mRNA with increased expression in the earliest stages of somatic embryogenesis of Dactilis glomerata L. by differential display”. In 2002 she successfully completed her PhD in Molecular Biology at the section "Molecular Biology of the Cell Cycle" at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the topic "Study of the Relationship Between the Initiation of DNA Replication and the Structures of the Nuclear Matrix in Mammalian Cells". From 2002 to 2004, she specialized as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste, Italy. From 2005 to 2012: Research Associate, Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Science; From 2012 to 2019: Forensic DNA Expert at the DNA Laboratory, Research Institute for Forensic Science and Criminology, Ministry of Interior. From 2019 to date: Research Associate, Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Science.