She is a professor at Technological University Dublin, where she is head of discipline for physics and clinical measurement science in the School of Physics, Clinical and Optometric Sciences,[1] and scientific director of the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics.
[2] Naydenova studied applied optics at Sofia University, graduating in 1993.
[2] After three years of postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Munich, she came to the Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University Dublin) for a second term of postdoctoral research, as an Arnold F. Graves fellow.
She became a lecturer at the institute in 2008, a professor in 2017, and scientific director of the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics in 2021.
[2] Naydenova was named as a 2023 Optica Fellow, "for contributions to holographic materials, sensors, and modeling, and outstanding service to the community".