Education and Employment

Education

	1969-1979	Pupil (finished with a Gold Medal)	No. 114 secondary school with English bias	Yerevan
	1977-1978	Courses of French	Yerevan House of Techniques	Yerevan
	1979-1982	B.Sc. student, B.Sc. degree in Physics	Department of Physics, Yerevan State Univ.	YSU
	1980-1983	Courses of English; Diploma of a translator of English	Faculty of Social Professions, YSU	YSU
	1982-1984	M.Sc. student, M.Sc. degree in Astrophysics	Chair of Astrophysics, Yerevan State Univ.	YSU
	1988-1991	Post-graduate fellowship	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	1994	Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO

Employment

	1986-1990	Assistant astronomer	Laboratory of the 2.6m telescope, BAO	BAO
	1990-1995	Junior research associate	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	1994-2001	Scientific Secretary	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	1995-1999	Research associate	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	1999-2007	Senior research associate	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	2000-2012	Resident Director	Isaac Newton Institute Armenian Branch	INI
	2001-2002	President	Armenian Astronomical Society	ArAS
	2001-presently	Lecturer	Department of Physics, Yerevan State University	YSU
	2002-presently	Co-President, Acting President	Armenian Astronomical Society	ArAS
	2002-2007	Principal Investigator	Digitization of the First Byurakan Survey	DFBS
	2005-presently	Project Manager	Armenian Virtual Observatory	ArVO
	2005-2017	Head of a research group	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	2006-presently	Program Director	Byurakan International Summer Schools	BISS
	2007-presently	Leading research associate	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	2007-2015	Director’s Advisor on International Affairs	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	2009-presently	Head of Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize office	National Academy of Sciences of Armenia	NAS RA
	2009-presently	Scientific Secretary, International Steering Committee	Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize	VA Prize
	2014-presently	Acting President	IAU National Committee for Astronomy (NCA) in Armenia	IAU
	2014-2017	Armenian National Contact Point (NCP) for Space	EU H2020	H2020
	2015-2017	Project Manager	BAO Plate Archive Project	BAO
	2015-2017	Deputy Director on International Affairs	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	2015-presently	Head, Chair of Scientific Tourism	Armenian Institute of Tourism	AIT
	2015-presently	Vice-Chair	Euro-Asian Astronomical Society	EAAS
	2015-presently	Director	IAU South West and Central Asian Regional Office of Astronomy for Development	SWCA
	2017-presently	Space Program Committee (PC) member from Armenia	EU H2020	H2020
	2017-2022	Director	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO
	2017-presently	Head of Research Department “Astronomical Surveys”	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	BAO