Natalia Togonidze - PhD of philosophy in Life Sciences. PhD thesis - "Impact of forest degradation on plant species diversity: Determination of the potential of successional stages of natural regeneration of subalpine birch forest". Working at the Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture and at the Institute of Botany of Ilia State University. She worked at the Center of Allergy and studied allergens. In 2024 she received the Georgian National Foundation's Young Scholar Grant to the project "Creation of a Predictive Model of Natural Restoration of Subalpine Birch Forest". She is author of more than twenty publications and participated in the several international conferences and congresses