Dimitar Djilianov has been the Head of the Abiotic Stress Group at Agrobioinstitute, Sofia, Bulgaria, and also a Leader of the Bulgarian participation groups in projects of EU F5P, F6P, F7P, and Horizon, since 2000. He has been an Associate Professor, and since 2013, a Professor at the same institute. Before his current role, he was a Researcher (1985–1994) at the Central Laboratory for Genetic Engineering (present ABI) and a Head of Group (1995–1999) at the Institute of Genetic Engineering (present ABI). In 2003, he was awarded the JSPS Fellowship (Plant Molecular Biology and Physiology of Stress Tolerance).