Prof. Kristina Bliznakova
About the speaker
Professor Kristina Bliznakova graduated in Electronic Engineering and Microelectronics from the Technical University of Varna in 1996, and completed a Master's program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Patras, Greece, in 1998.
In 2003, she earned her PhD at the University of Patras with a dissertation on software simulation for X-ray imaging, developing a method for creating anthropomorphic computational breast models for X-ray imaging.
From 2004 to 2012, she led the Monte Carlo Simulations Research Group at the University of Patras. In 2012, she was awarded a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant to support her reintegration into Bulgaria through a project on 3D breast cancer detection based on phase-contrast technology.
Since 2016, she has been Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Technical University of Varna, and since 2019 a member of the Department of Medical Equipment, Electronic and Information Technologies in Healthcare at the Medical University of Varna. She leads the "Anthropomorphic Phantoms" module within EUTEMPE-NET, the European Training and Education Network for Medical Physics Experts.
Her research focuses on biomedical engineering, mathematical modelling of anthropomorphic tissue phantoms, and novel X-ray imaging techniques for breast cancer detection. She is a member of IEEE, IFMBE and EFOMP.