Dr. Martin Ivanov was born in Sofia in 1994. He graduated from the 127th SU "Ivan Nikolaevich Denkoglu" in Sofia in 2012 and the Medical University "Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov" , Varna, specialty " Medicine" in 2018. From 2018, he was appointed as a part-time assistant in the department of "Anatomy and Cell Biology, and in 2019, after passing a competitive exam, he was selected as an assistant to the same department.
From 07 to 09.2019 and 08.2020 is a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany on a project to study neurogenesis in primates.
The main research areas of Dr. Martin Ivanov's research are brain stem cells and adult neurogenesis.