Plamen Penchev is a fourth-year medical student at the Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He is the president and co-founder of the Bulgarian students club of neuroscience “Neurologica”. He has published 17 articles (7 with IF) and has 23 abstracts presented with oral presentations at conferences in Bulgaria and Europe, some of which he had won prizes for best presentation. Most recently, he won 1st place at the International Trauma Conference in London, UK. He is a peer-reviewer at Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences for which he has written 10 peer reviews for articles in the field of neurosurgery. He is a member of the international neurosurgical society “Walter Dandy” and the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.