Angelina Kancheva

Angelina is a prospective postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva investigating early interventions for brain health and mobility in cerebral small vessel disease through integrated primary care (her new post effectively starts on June 1st 2026).

Angelina just submitted her doctoral thesis as part of the Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Program at the University of Glasgow. Her PhD research integrated large-scale clinical and neuroimaging data to characterise the clinical footprint of small vessel disease in the brain, a key contributor to stroke, dementia, and cognitive decline. Alongside her PhD, she supports postgraduate researchers through various leadership and mentoring roles. More specifically, she is currently one of the Early Career Investigator Representatives for the International Society of Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders where she contributes to supporting a Mentorship Program focused on research orientation, leadership, network building, and research dissemination. 

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.