Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tsvetelina Kostadinova has graduated from the Medical University "Prof. Dr. P. Stoyanov" - Varna in 1996. She specialized in Virology in 2008. In 2012, she obtained a Master's degree in Health Management and since the same year she has been an assistant professor in microbiology and virology at the Training sector of „Medical Laboratory Assistant“ in Medical college-Varna and in the Department of "Microbiology and Virology" in Medical University "Prof. Dr. P. Stoyanov" - Varna. In 2017, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic "Seroepidemiological and laboratory diagnostic studies on the prevalence and clinical significance of Epstein Barr virus infection", and since 2019 she has been an associate professor at Training sector of „Medical Laboratory Assistant, of which she is also the head. Since the same year, she has been working as an associate professor virologist in the University Hospital "St. Marina"- Varna.