Svetlana Bancheva

Biography

1985-1990: M.Sc. at the Faculty of Biology of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, subject: Biology - Botany; 1991-1996: Assist. Professor in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Biology of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”; 1996-1999: PhD Thesis at the Faculty of Biology of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, title of thesis "Biosystematic study on genus Centaurea in Bulgaria - Sects Cyanus and Lepteranthus"; 1999-2007: Researcher in the Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Curator of the Herbarium (SOM); 2007-2014: Assoc. Professor in the Institute of Botany and then in the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; 2014-present: Professor in the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; 2010-present : Head of the Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources,Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (former Institute of Botany).

Research Interest

Diversity of plants and habitats; floristic investigation; taxonomy of vascular plants; Centaurea, Cardueae, Compositae; molecular approaches; endemic and rare plants; plant and habitat conservation; protected areas; monitoring of plants and habitats; mapping and assessment of plant populations, habitats and ecosystems and their services.