Education
1975 - 1980: Yerevan State University, faculty of Mech-Maths
1981 - 1984: Post-graduate student at Mechanical Institute of Academy of Sciences, RA

Academic degree
Candidate of Sciences “Study of Dynamic of Manipulative Robots by Calculating their Elastic Quality”, 1984, Moscow, Institute of Mechanical Problems at USSR Academy of Sciences.
PHD - “Optimization and Guiding Movements of Manipulation Robots with Absolutely Solid and Elastic Loops”, 1996, Moscow, Institute of Mechanical Problems at USSR Academy of Sciences.

Professional experience
1975 - 1981: YSU, faculty of Mech-Maths
1981 - 1984: Post-graduate student at Mechanical Institute of Academy of Sciences, ASSR
1984 - 1988: Scientific researcher at Mechanical Institute of Academy of Sciences, ASSR
1984 - 1989: Docent at the Chair of Theoretical Mechanics, YSU
1994 - 2002: Head of the Chair of Theoretical Mechanics ,YSU
2002 - 2010: Rector of Armenian State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan
2010: Chairman of the Supreme Certifying Commission of the Republic of Armenia

Academic courses
Theoretical Mechanics, Optimal Leadership, Manipulative Robot Mechanics and Optimal Leadership, Theory of Optimal Stabilization

Scale of professional interests
Theoretical Mechanics, Mechanics and Leadership of Manipulative Systems, Theory of Leadership, Main Objectives of Higher Education Management

Participation in grant projects
1998 - 2010: Head of the Scientific Theme financed by the state fund

Languages
Armenian, Russian,English

Professional membership
President of the specialized council on granting academic degrees on “020-pedagogy and psychology”
Member of the specialized council on granting academic degrees on “047- mechanics”: 2004 - 2010
Member of publication board of scientific collection “Mechanics” in AR Academy of National Sciences and “Education and Science in Artsakh” periodical in Gharabagh Republic.
President of publication council of periodicals “Scientific Reference Book” and “Armenological Report” ASPU: 2004 - 2010
2009-2010 Chief of the Editorial Council of the Scientifical Periodical of Interuniversity Consortium “Main Issues of Pedagogy and Pshychology”

Awards received
Ministry of Education and Science of Armenian Republic - Golden Order
Prime-Minister of AR - Letter of Acknowledgement .
Nobel Prize Winner Frityof Nansen”s golden memory- order/2005/
International Prize after Socrates - (Spain): for personal contribution to the modern social intellectual development
International Prize after Queen Victoria - (Great Britain): 2006
Order of Ananya Shirakatsy - 2006