Danko D. Georgiev earned his M.D. from Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria, in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Kanazawa University, Japan, in 2008 for his research in the area of neuronal differentiation. From 2004 to 2005, he worked as an anesthesiologist at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Naval Hospital, Varna. From 2008 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Kanazawa University, where he studied the molecular alterations in the cerebral cortex of subjects with schizophrenia. From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Georgiev held a two-year JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2011, he was a short-term visiting scholar at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh. From 2014 to 2015, he held the position of a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, where he studied the pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Georgiev is currently a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Advanced Study, Varna, Bulgaria. He has published over 40 research articles, some in world-renowned journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Journal of Neuroscience, Physical Review A, and Knowledge-Based Systems.