Ganka studied Chemistry and Physics at Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Pharmaceutical Analysis at Kingston University, UK. Having spent 12 years as a chemist at the Crick Peptide Chemistry STP, she joined the Chemical Glycobiology lab as a Senior Laboratory Scientist in 2020 where she works on the generation and evaluation of novel chemical probes to study the glyco-code, employing chemical and biochemical approaches. Her ‘love at first sight’ glycan is N-acetylglucosamine.