Graduated “History” at the University of Veliko Tarnovo. Completed both her MA and Ph.D. studies at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU, Budapest. Assoc. Professor in Medieval Archaeology of Bulgaria and the Balkans. Humboldt Fellow at the University of Cologne and Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Director of excavations in Preslav, near Varna and Sv. Ivan island, Sozopol. Research topics: monastic archaeology; landscape archaeology; archaeology of the West Black Sea coast 11 th to 15 th c.; medieval graffiti.