Strahil Berkov is a Professor at the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He received his M.Pharm. at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Higher Medical School, and his Ph.D. at the Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. After graduating, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Spain. Later, he worked at AgroBio Institute (Bulgaria) as an Assistant Professor (2009) and an Associate Professor (2012). His research interests include the chemoecology of amaryllidaceae and tropane alkaloids, chemotaxonomy, and metabolomics.