Stoyka Kostadinova Ruseva – Chief Assistant Professor, PhD in Landscape Architecture

She completed her higher education in 2009 at the University of Forestry, majoring in Landscape Architecture. In 2016, she enrolled as a full-time PhD student in the Department of Plant Pathology and Chemistry.
In 2020, she defended her dissertation on the topic “Key Pests Affecting Species of the Cupressaceae Family.”
Since October 2021, she has been a full-time Assistant Lecturer in the same department.

She conducts practical classes and exercises in the following subjects:
– Protection of Park Plants (Landscape Architecture, Master’s program)
– Forest Entomology (Forestry, Bachelor’s program)
– Fundamentals of Plant Protection (Ecology, Environmental Protection and Restoration, Bachelor’s program)
– Protection of Greenhouse Plants (Landscape Architecture, Master’s program)

Main areas of scientific interest:
– Entomology
– Biocontrol
– Phytopathology
– Pests of ornamental plants