Education:

• High school – Language High School – Pleven /-1989-1994/ - English and German Languages
• University degree – Medical University – Pleven /1994-2000/, Master of medicine, Medical doctor
• Higher Atestation Commission Sofia, specialized board in neurology and psychiatry (2010) – PhD degree in medicine (psychiatry)
• University degree – Medical University – Pleven /2018-2019/, Master in public health and healthcare management

Academic positions: Associated professor in psychiatry and medical psychology, department of psychiatry and medical psychology, medical university Pleven

Clinical positions: Head of II-nd psychiatric clinic of general psychiatry and substance use disorders, “Dr Georgi Stranski” University Hospital - Pleven

Teaching: lectures in psychiatry and medical psychology with ELE and BLE students

Scientific interests: psychiatric epidemiology, classification and diagnostics, neurobiology and genetics of mental disorders, psychopharmacotherapy of anxiety, mood and substance use disorders.

Membership in organizations: Bulgarian Medical Association, Bulgarian Psychiatric Association, European Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Association, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP)

Language skills

• English – C1
• Russian – A2
• German – A2