Miroslava Mihaylova Hristova-Cherbadzhi - Associate Professor, PhD
She graduated in 1998 at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski”. In 2007 she defended a PhD thesis "Study of new forms of sunflower received by distant hybridization". She started to work in University of Forestry as Assistant Professor in 2008. Since 2011 she is Associate Professor. Since 2018 she is Head of Department.

Leads lectures on the following courses:
• Plant breeding and seed production;
• Breeding and seed production of crops;
• Methodology of the scientific experiment;
• Breeding and seed production of vegetable crops;
• Breeding and seed production of aromatic and medicinal plants;
• Selection of resistance to biotic and abiotic factors.

Leads seminars on the following courses:
• Plant breeding and seed production;
• Breeding and seed production of crops;
• Methodology of the scientific experiment;
• Breeding and seed production of vegetable crops;
• Breeding and seed production of aromatic and medicinal plants.

Major fields of scientific interests:
• Plant breeding;
• Seed production;
• Genetics;
• Molecular biology;
• Plant biochemistry;
• Plant physiology.