Albert Krastanov Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Engineer Born June 30, 1960 in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. Secondary education graduated from the mathematical high school in his hometown and a university degree in 1985 at the University of Food Technologies in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He graduated as a technology engineer for fermentation products. Prof. Krastanov started as an assistant at the Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology in University of Food Technologies. He defended her doctoral thesis in 1997 and since 2001 he is a regular Associate professor at the Department of Biotechnology. In 2007 he was awarded the scientific degree "Doctor of Technical Sciences". Since the following year he has been a full professor at the Department of Biotechnology, and since 2012 he has been his head. From 2015 he is a co-founder and expert at the newly established "Academic Unit for Traditional Bulgarian Dairy Products" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Specialized in: Department of Chemical Enzymology at Moscow University, Russia; Department of Biotechnology, University of Padua, Italy; "Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research" at the University of Osaka, Japan; "International Center for Biotechnology" at the University of Osaka, Japan; State University of Iowa, USA; State University of New York, USA; Department of Biotechnology at the University of Osaka, Japan. In 2001 he was a visiting professor at the University of Osaka, Japan, and in 2004 visiting profess