Education and training:

• High School Education - Dulovo (1988)
• Higher Medical Institute – Pleven, Bulgaria (1995)
• Specialty - Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology (2005)
• Specialty – Hygiene of children and adolescents (2019)
• Master of Public health and health management (2007)
• PhD Thesis: „ Study on the effectiveness of specific prevention of mumps” (2010)
• PhD - Higher Attestation Committee (2011)

Work experience:

• Assistant Professor. Division  of Epidemiology, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (2001)
• Senior Assistant Professor. Sector  of Epidemiology, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (2005)
• Chief Assistant Professor. Sector  of Epidemiology, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (2008)
• Assoc. Professor. Sector  of Epidemiology, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (2012)
• Professor. Sector  of Epidemiology, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (2022)

Teaching activities:

• Lecture course on Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology for students Specialty "Medicine", Faculty of Medicine - English language education and Bulgarian language education;
• Lecture course on Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology for students Specialty „Nursing” and Specialty „Midwifery”, Faculty of Health Care;
• Lecture course on Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology for students Specialty “Protection and Control of Public Health”, Faculty of Public Health;
• Lecture course on Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology for students Specialty „Lab assistant”, Medical College;
• Lecture course on Hospital Hygiene for students Specialty „Nursing” and Specialty „Midwifery”, Faculty of Health Care;
• Lecture course on Health controls in specific communities for students Specialty “Protection and Control of Public Health”, Faculty of Public Health;
• Practical exercises on Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology for students Specialty "Medicine", Faculty of Medicine - English language education;
• Lecture course on Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology for trainee dortors, Faculty of Medicine - English language education and Bulgarian language education;
• Training for post graduates: Epidemiology, General medicine, parasitology, Infectious Diseases;
• Lecture course for post graduates.

Scientific interests:

• Infectious Diseases of Epidemiology;
• Vaccine Preventable Infectious Diseases;
• Sexually transmitted infections;
• Bloodborne infections;
• Еpidemiology and prevention of infections with oncogenic potential;

Publications and Scientific activities:

• Publications in Bulgarian journals – 123; in abroad – 34; IF 12.23, SJR 4.33; Data base SCOPUS (60), Web of Science (12), other (85)
• Scientific reports – on Forums in Bulgaria - 119 on Forums in abroad – 54

• Grant: ESCMID Conference on Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-18, 2011
• Grant:The 2^rd ESCMID Conference on The Impact of Vaccines on Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-24 March 2013;

• Author of one monograph: Mumps / Epidemiology /, Pleven, 2011;
• Co-author of one book:Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Sofia, 2013;
• Co-author of one guide practical exercises in Epidemiology, Sofia, 2013;
• Co-author of one of one book: Infectious diseases, Epidemiology, Sofia 2022;
• Participation in research projects, financed by Medical University - Pleven (1/2009),  (1/2014), (1/2015), (2/2016), (2/2017), (1/2020)

Membership in professional and scientific organizations and unions:

• Bulgarian Union of Physicians (1999)
• Bulgarian Society Union of Epidemiologists (2005)
• Union of Scientists in Bulgaria (2006)
• Bulgarian Association of Preventive Medicine (2011)
• Bulgarian Academy of Science and Art (2011)

• Bulgarian Public Health Association (2011)
• ESCMID (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) (2011)
• EUPHA (European Public Health Association) (2011)
• Balcan Medical Union (2014)
• International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS) (2015)
• ESCMID Vaccine Study Group – EVASG (2016)

Language skills:

• English – Speaking and  Writing (B2)
• Russian – Speaking and  Writing (B2)

Additional qualifications:

• Participation in courses - in Bulgaria (45), in abroad – (6) (Czech Republic, Austria, Turkey, Cyprus, Italy