Liudmil Antonov is a Full Professor in Chemistry at The Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Director of The University Centre on Tautomeric Research and Education in Science and Technology (ERA Chair UCTREST), University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He has over 30 years scientific experience in physical organic chemistry (tautomerism in organic chemistry, molecular devices/sensors and drug design) and molecular spectroscopy (structural analysis, nondestructive analysis, chemometrics). Having obtained MSc (1989) and PhD (1994) degrees from the University of Sofia, he spent one year at Tokyo Institute of Technology before taking an appointment at University of Forestry in Sofia. In 1998, he was appointed as youngest in Bulgaria Associated Professor in Analytical Chemistry. After stays at The National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan (2002, 2006) as JSPS Fellow and at Humboldt University of Berlin (2003-2004) as Humboldt fellow, he joined Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2007. Keeping the existing position at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in 2026 he created and currently head ERA Chair UCTREST at University of Plovdiv. Visiting professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2011, 2016) and Mare Balticum Fellow at University of Rostock (2019). Serving European Commission as expert and panel member since 2001. National representative in the COST networks MOLIM, PortASAP, NECTAR and SensorFINT.