Albena Mihovska has a PhD degree in EEng (2008) from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. She has a strong academic research track record as an associate professor at Aalborg University (2008-2017) and Aarhus University (2017-2023), Denmark. She is a Senior Research Expert at the Research, Innovation & Development Consortium (RDIC), Sofia, Bulgaria. Furthermore, she holds positions of the CTO, SmartAvatar BV, The Netherlands; and Research Director at CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) Foundation, Skagen, Denmark. She is the one6G WG3 Vice-Chair and a Board Member of EUROMERSIVE. Her research interests lie in 6G connectivity for applications across vertical market segments. She is an ITU-T Focus Group on Metaverse (FGMV) Expert, and has been active within the ITU-T standardization since 2011. She serves on the committees of several prominent IEEE events and has more than 200 peer-reviewed research publications, including several books on 6G.