Elena Maksimova, assistant professor in Criminal Law and Criminology, and also Vice - Dean for education at the Faculty of Law, University Goce Delcev – Stip. 

 Maksimova has finished her Bachelor, LL.M and PhD Studies at the Faculty of Law “Iustiniaus Primus”, St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. In 2018 she has defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Criminality of women in the period 2005-2015, with accent on the victimological aspects” at the same faculty.  

From 2012 is working as teaching assistant at Faculty of Law, Goce Delcev University in Stip, Republic of Macedonia, in a criminal law field. From February 2019 she was elected as Assistant Professor at the same faculty. From September 2019, she was appointed as a Vice-Dean for education. She is also a trainer of students for moot court competition in practical ECHR knowledge and European Convention of Human Rights. 

Elena Maksimova has attended plenty of conferences, seminars and trainings. She has also been included in few projects, and have many publication, as an author or coauthor in national and international journals.