Ethnomusicologist, Doctor of Arts, Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; university lecturer in ethnomusicology and musical folklore. She has worked as a leader and participant in 22 research projects in the field of ethnomusicology, anthropological musicological research, the study of local ethnocultural and musical traditions, cultural identity, collective memory, migration processes, Bulgarian communities abroad, ethnological research, intercultural interactions. She has many years of experience in field ethnological research in Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey. She has published over 120 scientific studies and articles at home and abroad.