Professor Stanislava Stoyanova is a psychologist who is based at the South-West University Neofit Rilski in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. She graduated from the South-West University Neofit Rilski with a master’s degree in psychology in 1999 and was awarded a PhD in social psychology from the same university in 2003.

Stanislava has about 15 years experience in the areas of psychological diagnostics and consultancy. She has been trained in cognitive behavioural therapy, transactional analysis, and art therapy. She is a lecturer in psychological measurements, experimental psychology, and social psychology. She has a number of scientific publications. Her research centre on developing psychological questionnaires, investigating ethnic attitudes, management of emotional states, among others.

Stanislava serves as a member of the editorial board for Psychreg Journal of Psychology and was the chief editor of the journal Psychological Thought from 2012–2019.