1975
Born in Pavlikeni, Bulgaria; Undergraduate studies in Molecular biology/Genetics at Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria

2004–2007
PhD studies at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

2007-2010
Postdoctoral fellow at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK   

Since June 2010
Head of the Fly facility at the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany