Experience

Fasteris

• Switzerland
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NGS and Sanger representative

  • Aug 2017 - Present

• Sanger sequencing

  • Aug 2017 - Present



Hepia University Geneva

• Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Jun 2016 - Present



Battelle

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Registration Specialist

  • Mar 2016 - May 2016



University of Forestry Sofia

• PhD

  • 2011 - 2016



Bulgarian Plant protection organisation (NSPP/BFSA)

• Sofia

• Senior Expert

  • Nov 2007 - Oct 2014

  - Participation in expert working groups of the European Council, and also participated in the Standing Committee on Plant Health in Brussels by the European Commission, Belgium; - Participation in annual session of the CPM of the IPPC at FAO, Rome, Italy; - Correspondence with the European institutions involved in the field of plant protection. - Coordination and control of the activities of the phytosanitary inspectors at 28 regional plant protection services inland and at border check points; - Support for regional operational units and for the Central Laboratory on Plant Quarantine for all 10 monitoring programs and control of measures as well as in recognizing a quarantine pest; - Supervisor on a national level of implementation on monitoring program “Diseases on fruit trees”; - Development of new procedures and protocols for an implementation in the phytosanitary field; - Organization of several specific training courses; - Database analyses. Generalization of weekly, monthly and annual reports, preparation of reports on a national level and to the European Commission; Administration of the NSPP and BFSA websites /section “Plant protection”/; Show less



AlPlanta Agroscience

• Neustadt/W, Germany

• Plant protection

  • 2010 - 2014

  PhD thesis: "Molecular Characterization of fruit tree phytoplasmas and their vectors in Bulgaria". Scientific experiences: - Characterization of different fruit tree phytoplasmas dough molecular tools: 1. DNA extraction; 2. Detection of 16SrX group phytoplasmas in samples from different geographic regions by standard PCR, nested PCR, ore real-time PCR; 3. PCR product cloning with standard procedures; 4. Sequence analysis of the clones and sequence comparison with available sequence data; 5. Phylogenetic analysis; 6. Development of new specific primers for direct identification of phytoplasma type, and specific primers for insect’s species identification; - Monitoring in the fruit orchards of the potential pytoplasma vectors and disease’s symptoms; - Participation in national and international scientific conferences and forums. Show less



Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum Rheinpfalz

• Germany
• Farming
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scientist

  • Mar 2008 - Dec 2008

  Scholarship project: - Evaluating new control strategy against cold moths’ complex: Laspeyresia pomonella, Grapholitha funebrana, und Grapholitha molesta Fam. Tortricidae. - Daily monitoring and observation of the pest development during the vegetation, in commercial fruit orchards and comparing the data with the prognosis models. - Morphological identification of the captured species. - Test of deferent chemical and biological products, ore combination between both during vegetation. Show less