Dr. Ana I. Proykova, Doctor Habil, is a Full Professor for Atomic and Molecular Physics and the Head of the High Performance Computing Laboratory at the Sofia Tech Park. She is the Science Director of the newly established Centre of Excellence "Universities for ScieNce, Informatics and Technologies in the e-Society - UNITe" at the University of Sofia.

In her professional career she worked at universities around the world, including Belgium, Germany, Israel, Italy, the USA, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan. She has over 30 years of experience in the field of computational physics with achievements in phase transitions of low-dimensional systems, simulation techniques and data analysis – a list of selected publications is available from the University web-site https://authors.uni-sofia.bg/AuthorPublications.aspx?id=2d5eb3a8-8e18-47cf-887a-45f0ec70b149

She is on the Advisory Board of the EOSC-NORDIC , H2020.

Editor: Open Physics, DE GRUYTER;

International Journal of Molecular Science (MDPI); Pharmaceutical Frontiers.

She has been elected for the third mandate as a member of the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks.

She is a member of the Program Committee on the Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology, H2020.

She is the Bulgarian delegate in the ESFRI Forum and the Chair of the ESFRI Strategic Working Group on Data, Computing and Digital Research Infrastructures.