Martcheva earned a master's degree in mathematics from the
University of Sofia in 1988. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1998 at
Purdue University. Her dissertation, in
population dynamics, was
An Age-Structured Two-Sex Population Model, and was supervised by Fabio Augusto Milner. After postdoctoral research at the
University of Minnesota, she became an instructor at the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1999. After taking several additional visiting faculty positions, she moved to the University of Florida as an assistant professor in 2003. ==Books==