Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1994. Graduated from the Medical University “Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov" in Varna, Bulgaria, with a degree in Medicine in 2018. In September 2018, he was appointed as a part-time teaching assistant, and in 2019 – as a full-time assistant at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Medical University – Varna. He is involved in teaching practical courses for students in Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Medical Laboratory Assistance. In 2023, he obtained a medical specialty in "Anatomy, Histology and Cytology." In 2024, he successfully defended his PhD thesis on the topic: "Proliferation and differentiation of progenitor cells in the subventricular zone of the adult primate forebrain."
From 2022 to 2024, he was a junior researcher within the project TRANSTEM: ERA-Chair in Translational Stem Cell Biology, at the Research Institute of MU-Varna (RIMU). Since 2024, he has been a postdoctoral researcher (R2 level) under the MUVE TEAM project at RIMU-Varna. In 2023, he was awarded the Professor Dimitar Kadanov Prize by the Bulgarian Anatomical Society.
His main research interests include brain stem cells, adult neurogenesis, and brain regeneration.
Specializations:
- In 2022 – Research on adult neurogenesis, cell cultures, and electron microscopy at the Department of Neuroanatomy and Molecular Brain Research, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eckart Förster, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
- In 2019 and 2020 – Research on adult primate neurogenesis at the Department of Genes and Behavior, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gregor Eichele, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
- In 2023 – Research on neurogenesis in brain organoids at the Department of Brain Development and Evolution, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Heide, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany.
Participation in Research Projects:
- “Expression of apelin peptide in neurogenic zones of the human forebrain after stroke" – project funded by the “Science" Fund of MU-Varna.
- “Comparative analysis of gene expression in germinal zones of the primate brain with varying potential for neuronal regeneration" – project funded by the “Science" Fund of MU-Varna.
- “Expression and effects of the apelinergic system in the subventricular zone of mammals" – project funded by the “Science" Fund of MU-Varna.
- “Analysis of long non-coding RNA expression in neurogenic zones of the primate brain" – project funded by the “Science" Fund of MU-Varna.
“Identification of novel markers for progenitor cells in the primate brain through gene expression analysis of post-ischemia-upregulated genes in stem cell niches" – project funded by the “Science" Fund of MU-Varna.
