Irena Boycheva, Independent Scientific Investigator
Born: 1983, Bulgaria
Background & Education
Boycheva developed an early passion for languages and athletics (dance, swimming, running, acrobatics). She began her education in German at the ППМГ “Акад. проф. д-р Асен Златаров” school in Botevgrad, Bulgaria, and later moved to Greece, where she taught herself Greek and successfully completed advanced examinations at the Φιλοσοφική Σχολή of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She subsequently learned English and pursued Hebrew studies independently.
Her multilingual background provided a strong foundation for her later scientific work, particularly in medicine and biology, where Greek terminology plays a central role.
Research Focus
In 2012, motivated by personal experience, Boycheva began her independent research career in the life sciences. She established a personal Research Library (Dormant People Research Library), curating hundreds of scientific references across biochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, environmental health, and molecular biology…
From this foundation, she began creating original visual syntheses to integrate knowledge from diverse fields:
Diagram 1: Biochemical and organ-level nicotine pathway — maps how nicotine interacts with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and how these receptors participate in electrical and chemical signaling across multiple organs and systems.
Diagram 2: The “alchemy of nicotine addiction” — refines addiction into functional systems such as methylation, one-carbon metabolism, homeostasis, feedback loops, and allostatic load.
Diagram 3: The Custodian Cycle (MKCH Axis) — proposes addiction as a repeating loop of memory, behavior, addiction, and preservation, linking biochemical repetition to intergenerational patterns.
Diagram 4: The Stimulus–Signal Cycle — any stimulus, whether from natural surroundings or stimulants, creates a signal that should be stabilized by minerals. Once stabilized, carbon gives the signal a form — and the mind does not read raw signals but these carbon forms, which become perception before returning to reset.
Perception is the carbon form the mind can read — a thought, an image, a feeling. The signal alone is noise; only after minerals hold it and carbon shapes it does it become perception. And only then, after being read, can the cycle reset. When a hydrogen is replaced by a methyl group (–CH₃), the molecule shifts from hydrophilic to hydrophobic, its structure changes, and the cycle is broken — sparks appear without reset, leading to repetition (addiction) instead of rhythm.
These diagrams are not isolated drawings, but distillations of her research library — an effort to transform complex scientific knowledge into integrative models that reveal new connections.
The latest diagram has made the work come alive. At last there is something real to explore — not only more references or theories, but the inorganic: minerals and geochemistry, touchable, measurable, and ready for experiments.
Read about my experience in the blog post.