Vassya Bankova

Vassya Stefanova Bankova (born 1954 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian chemist and a recognised propolis expert. She is a professor and the chief of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where she took her doctorate in 1990 and the higher degree of Doktor nauk in 2000, and she has been a full professor there since 2005. She graduated from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in 1977 and is an honorary professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of Sofia University. She is president of the Bulgarian Phytochemical Society and has been a Correspondent Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 2014.