Nikolay Zhelyazkov earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature and a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature – Linguistics from Plovdiv University.
In 2004-2005 he was a part-time lecturer in English at the Department of English Language and Literature in Plovdiv University. In 2005-2006 he was a part-time lecturer in English at the Department of Language and Specialized Training of Foreign Students in Plovdiv University. In 2006-2007 he was a teacher and a sworn translator at the Maximum English Language School – Plovdiv. In 2007 he was appointed as a full-time lecturer in English at the University of Food Technologies – Plovdiv. He has been a senior lecturer since 2011.
He teaches seminars in English for various fields: information technology, business English and specialized English for technology specialists. Professional and scientific interests: foreign language teaching, contrastive linguistics, computational linguistics, translation theory. Member of the “Prof. Boris Simeonov” Linguistic Club at Plovdiv Univerity.