Galina Samichkova

Galina Samichkova was born in Lovech. In 2006 she graduated with a Master's Degree in Archaeology at the University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. St. Cyril and Methodius". In 2022, she defended her dissertation on the topic ""Late Neolithic Ceramic Complexes from the Eastern Stara Planina to the Eastern Rhodopes", supervised by Prof. Vassil Nikolov, Ph.D., Sc.D. In the same year, she was appointed Assistant Professor at the Prehistory Section of the National Archaeological Institute and Museum - BAS. Since 2001 she has been actively involved in numerous archaeological excavations and research projects. Her interests are focused on the late prehistory of the Eastern Balkans.
Since 2013 she has been the vice director of the archaeological excavations at the prehistoric salt-production and urban center Provadia-Solnitsata.