Education
1975 - 1985: School in Yerevan
1985 - 1987, 1989 - 1992: Student of Yerevan State University, Faculty of History
1994 - 1998: Post Graduate Student of Yerevan State University

Professional and administrative experience
1987 - 1989: Military Service in the Soviet Army
1992: Senior Engineer of the Laboratory of Archaeology of Yerevan State University
1992 - 2000: Scientific Employee of the Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
1992 - 1998: Assistant to the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
1998 - 1999: Commentator of the newspaper “Hayk”
1999 - 2001: Chief expert of the Department of External Relations of the Government of the Republic of Armenia
Since 2002: Senior Engineer of the Laboratory of Archaeology of Yerevan State University.
Since 2005: Lecturer of the Department of Archaeology and Ethnography of Yerevan State University

Scientific degree
Ph. D. (Candidate of historical Sciences). 2002 Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of RA. .
Dissertation: Early Bronze Age settlements and dwellings in the Armenian Highland. {in Armenian}. (Supervised by S. Esayan)

Field expierence
1993: Excavations at the Bronze Age Settlement at Voskevaz (Directors of the expedition H. Simonyan, H. Gash)
1994 - 1997: Itinerary Expedition in Nagorno Karabagh (Director of the expedition H. Simonyan)
1995: Excavations at the Early Medieval Cult Complex Vankasar Nagorno Karabagh (Director of the expedition H. Simonyan)
1996: Excavations at the Early Iron Age graveyard at Eznagomer, Nagorno Karabagh
1996 - 1997: Excavations at the Bronze Age settlement at Eznagomer. Nagorno Karabagh
1997 - 1998: Excavations at the Early Medieval Cloister Tsitsernavank Nagorno Karabagh (Director of the expedition H. Simonyan)
2001: Excavations at the Early Iron Age graveyard Vardut Nagorno Karabagh
2003: Itinerary Expedition to the basin of the Upper Azat (Director of the expedition S. Shahinyan)
2003: Excavations at the Early Iron Age graveyard Gandza Nagorno Karabagh
2004 - 2011: Excavations at the Late Bronze-Iron Age graveyard Keren Nagorno Karabagh
2004 - 2011: Excavations at the Bronze Age graveyard and medieval settlement Bjni (Directors of expedition I Gharibyan, H. Hakobyan)
2006 - 2009: Excavations at the Bronze Age graveyard Tsaghkalandgh (Director of expedition F. Mouradyan)
2006 - 2007: Excavations at the Hellenistic settlement Hoghmik (Director of expedition H. Hakobian)
2007: Excavations at the Bronze Age graveyard Aknalitch (Director of expedition F. Mouradyan)

Teaching Courses
Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in Armenia, History of Urbanism, History of Ancient Armenian Art, Archaeology of Northern Caucasus.

Languages
Excellent – Armenian, Russian, Good – English, Persian (With dictionary)