Bankova is a professor and Chief of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory, at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry (IOCCP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
She is also an honorary professor on the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University.
[3] She graduated from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in 1977.
[1] Since 2009, the Chief of the IOCCP Chemistry of Natural Compounds Laboratory.
[1] She is a member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry Central Journal.