Dr. Boryana Petrova is Director of the Research Metabolomics Core Facility at the Medical University of Vienna, where she develops and applies next-generation mass spectrometry technologies for quantitative, high-throughput and low-input metabolomics. Her work focuses on advancing metabolomics from biomarker discovery toward precision diagnostics by improving analytical robustness, cross-laboratory comparability and integration with machine learning and multi-omics approaches. She leads technology development spanning quantitative reference metabolomes, single-cell metabolomics and translational profiling workflows, with applications across cancer, neuroscience, immunometabolism and systems medicine.