Angelina Kancheva

Angelina is a final-year PhD student on the Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Program at the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral research integrates large-scale clinical and neuroimaging data to characterise the clinical footprint of cerebral small vessel disease, a key contributor to stroke and dementia. Alongside her PhD, she supports postgraduate researchers through various leadership and mentoring roles. Outside academia, Angelina enjoys trail running, adventure travel, and volunteering for environmental and humanitarian causes. 

"Motivation comes from doing. The right conditions to do what we want to do don't come from outside - we create them through action. Movement is progress, movement is failure, movement is success. Movement is a condition of life." 

Angelina Kancheva is a part of the Falling Walls Female Science Talents Intensive Track 2026.