Tania Pencheva received her MSc in Bioengineering (1994) and MSc in Applied Mathematics and Informatics (1998) from the Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, and PhD (2003) from the Centre of Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Sofia. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering - BAS. She is a Deputy Chief Editor of International Journal Bioautomation, a member of the Editorial board of International Journal of Computing and Optimization and Global Journal of Technology and Optimization, and a member of Scientific Monitoring and Advisory Committee of Australian Institute of High Energy Materials. Tania Pencheva has been invited as a reviewer in many journals, among them Compr. Res. J. Biol. Sci., Brit. J. Appl. Sci&Techn., Brit. Biotechn. J., Brit. Microbiol. Res. J., Math. Comput. Simul., Amer. J. Biomed. Eng., Math. Probl. Eng., J. Mol. Model., CABEQ, Chem. Eng. Comm., Biochem. Eng. J., Comp. Meth. and Progr. Biomed., Adv. Stud. Cont. Math, AMSE, J. Env. Manag., Ecol. Modell., Int J Bioautomation and many others. For a ten-year period she has been a member, a vice-chairman and a chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Int. Symp. “Bioprocess Systems - BioPS”, Sofia, Bulgaria, a member of the Organizing Committee of Int. Conf. on Math. Meth. Mod. Bioscie – BIOMATH, Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as a member of the Organizing Committee of 2nd ScienceOne International Conference on Information Technology – ICIT 2014, Dubai, UAE. Tania Pencheva has published more than 150 publications including 12 books and book chapters with about 250 known citations. She has been awarded by the Union of the Scientists in Bulgaria for young scientist’s achievements in the area of medicinal/biological sciences in 2006.

Her current scientific interests are in the fields of:

- modelling, optimisation and control of biotechnological processes; 

- drug design, molecular modelling, virtual ligand screening;

- metaheuristic algorithms;

- intuitionistic fuzzy logic;

- generalised nets;

- intercriteria analysis in decision making systems.