Biography
Prof. Dr. Milen I. Georgiev heads the Laboratory of Metabolomics @ the Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). He also serves as head of the Plant Cell Biotechnology Department @ the Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (CPSBB) in Plovdiv. With over 20 years of experience in the field of natural products, he has published more than 200 scientific papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Molecular Plant, Genome Biology, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, and Plant Biotechnology Journal, among others. Throughout his career, he has delivered over 85 invited lectures across 35 countries.
His current research focuses on three primary areas: 1) Biosynthesis of fine molecules and the development of biotechnological tools for their sustainable mass production, 2) Metabolomics and comprehensive metabolite profiling and 3) Molecular pharmacology, with a particular emphasis on longevity, obesity, and skin photoaging.
Milen is a four-time recipient of the prestigious Pythagoras Award for outstanding scientist, awarded by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (2011, 2015, 2020, and 2024), making him the only scientist in Bulgaria to win this honor four times. Since 2020, he has been consistently ranked among the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists across all scientific disciplines.
He actively serves as an Editor, Associate Editor, or Editorial Board member for 20 international journals in biotechnology and natural products, such as Phytomedicine, Phytochemistry, Phytochemistry Reviews, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, Biotechnology Letters, and Food Frontiers. As Chairman, he founded the International Conference on Natural Products Utilization: from Plants to Pharmacy Shelf (ICNPU), which successfully concluded its 6th edition in 2025 (www.icnpu2025.com).
Milen is a member of the Management Board of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and serves on the Advisory Boards of several universities, research institutes, and EU-funded international projects.
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