Tanya Gachovska received a M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering specializing in Automation of Production and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering specializing in Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) from University of Ruse, Bulgaria, in 1995 and 2003, respectively. She worked as assistant professor from 1999-2003 at the University of Ruse. She conducted research for two years and taught for a semester at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She had 18 months post-doc experience on PEF at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA. Tanya Gachovska finished her second PhD in electrical engineering specializing Power Electronics specifically Modeling of Power Semiconductor Devices in 2012. During her studies, she has taught different courses and labs and continued collaboration for PEF research with University of Ruse, McGill and UNL. Now she is a Lecturer at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.  She is the author or co-author of more than 30 technical papers and conference presentations, and holds a world patent in PEF.