She is also founder and director of CERMES Center for European Refugees Migration and Ethnic Studies. She is responsible for authoring and editing 29 books and she has published articles in fifteen countries. Her primary research interests include migration and ethnic politics and policies, populism and the radical right, new mobilisations online and offline, e-citizenship, and digital democracy. She conducted her undergraduate studies in French and Spanish Languages at Sofia University. She later received an M.A. in Philosophy from Sofia University and a PhD from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.