Maya P. Stoyneva-Gaertner

Maya Stoyneva-Gärtner received her PhD and DrSc in Botany from the Department of Botany at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. She attended courses for Lake Management (Hungary), Stream and Lake Restoration (Sweden), Cryptogamic Botany (Austria) and postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Prof. Wim Vyverman in the Ghent University (Belgium). She is a Professor at Sofia University, Head of the Working Group for Systematics of Algae and Fungi, and Director of the Living Algal Collection of Sofia University (ACUS) since its foundation in 2006. Her publications include more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles, oriented mainly on freshwater and aeroterrestrial algae.