Denitsa Docheva was born in Karlovo, Bulgaria. She studied in specialized gymnasium class on biology, chemistry and English and graduatedwith two master degrees in biology and chemistry from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Afterwards she did her PhD in Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry (Dep. of Molecular Medicine) in Martinsried, Germany and graduated in 2005. In 2006, she established the tendon research group in the Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. In 2012, Denitsa Docheva completed her habilitation in Experimental Surgery. In September 2016, she was appointed Professor and Director of Experimental Trauma Surgery in the Department of Trauma Surgery in University Regensburg Medical Centre, Regensburg, Germany. In addition, she currently holds a Guest-Professorship in the Department of Medical Biology, Medical University of Plovdiv. She has published more than 80 articles with h-index of 24 and sum of times cited 2560. She has won more than 25 grant proposals with total funds of approx 2.6 million Euros including three EU grants (MATEGRA, ACHILLES and MEFISTO). She has supervised more than 50 research fellows from around the globe. She is the President of the European Orthopaedic Research Society (www.eors.info) and in 2017 she organized the 25th Annual Meeting. She is a member of ICORS steering committee and co-organizer of ICORS 2022.