Dessislava Petrova-Antonova is the Research Leader of the Data Management Research Unit of GATE Institute. Her research area includes Data management with a focus on semantic data enrichment and interoperability. Dessislava Petrova-Antonova obtained an engineering degree in Computer systems and technologies (2000) and a PhD in System programming (2007) from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Dessislava Petrova-Antonova is presently head of the MSc program “Technology entrepreneurship and innovations in IT”. She has co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed academic publications. She has successfully participated in several European and national RTD projects (more than 30).