Vassya Bankova

{{short description|Bulgarian chemist}}

{{multiple issues|

{{BLP sources|date=May 2018}}

{{BLP primary sources|date=May 2018}}

{{third-party|date=May 2018}}

}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Vassya Bankova

|image =

|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}

|birth_place = Sofia

|fields = chemistry

|workplaces = Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

|alma_mater = University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy

|academic_advisors =

|known_for =

|awards =

}}

Vassya Stefanova Bankova ({{langx|bg|Вася Стефанова Банкова|Vasya Stefanova Bankova}}; born 1954, in Sofia{{cite web |title=LABORATORY CHEMISTRY OF NATURAL PRODUCTS |url=http://www.orgchm.bas.bg/~bankova/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420044819/http://www.orgchm.bas.bg/~bankova/ |archive-date=2013-04-20 |website=www.orgchm.bas.bg}}) is a Bulgarian chemist and a president of the Bulgarian Phytochemical Society,{{cite web |title=Propolis conference Sofia 2018 |url=http://propolisconference2018.cim.bg/organizing-commitee/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109121850/http://propolisconference2018.cim.bg/organizing-commitee/ |archive-date=2018-01-09 |website=propolisconference2018.cim.bg}} Correspondent Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 2014. Bankova is a professor and Chief of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also an honorary professor on the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University. She is known as a propolis expert.{{cite web|url=http://propoelix.com/en_US/bankova/|title=Prof. Dr. Vassya BANKOVA - Propoelix|website=propoelix.com}}

She graduated from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in 1977. She obtained her PhD at the IOCCP in 1990, and obtained her degree of Doktor nauk (DSc.) from the same institute in 2000.

In 2005 she was promoted to a Full Professor at the IOCCP.

Since 2009, the Chief of the IOCCP Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry Central Journal.{{cite web|url=https://www.springer.com/chemistry/journal/13065?detailsPage=editorialBoard|title=Chemistry Central Journal (Editorial Board)|website=springer.com}}