Maria Baramova is an Associate Professor in Modern Balkan History at the Department of „Byzantine and Balkan Studies“ at the Faculty of History, Sofia University.
Her research interests include the history of Habsburg-Ottoman relations, geopolitics and regional history, military history and the history of peace treaties in the Early Modern period. From 2003 to 2004, she was a Herder Prize Fellow at the University of Vienna and, from 2011 to 2012, a research fellow at the Leibniz-Institutе for European History, Mainz. She has also specialized in Munich, Cologne, Hamburg and Wolfenbüttel. She is the author of articles and monographs and editor of volumes on the history of Southeastern Europe in the pre-modern era. In 2021 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Baramova received the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities for outstanding scientific achievements.