Kristina D Micheva

Dr Kristina Micheva is a Bulgarian-American neuroscientist She is one of the inventors of Array Tomography, a technique in which proteins are detected with antibodies in ultra-thin sections of brain tissue using confocal microscopy.

Education Micheva was a biology major at the University of Sofia. She received a masters in plant ecology at the University of Sofia as well. After graduation, she worked in a lab at a medical university in Sofia where she learned electron microscopy and how to work with brain sections. She moved to Montreal, Quebec to pursue a PhD in neuroscience (receiving the degree in 1996). in which she later taught as faculty (2006-2014).

Research Micheva's main interest is in studying how brain structures develop and change with experience. During her PhD, she studied how sensory experience affects cortical development. Given the advantages of this method, it is considered an excellent choice for challenging explorations of cellular architectures in mature and developing tissues.