Education (beginning with IHE)
1991 - 1996 - Faculty of Biology, Yerevan State University, Armenia

Academic degree
Candidate – “A Skeletochronological Study of the Rock Lizards of Armenia and Some Problems of their Ecology”, 12/26/2001, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg, Russia

Professional experience
1996- till now Researcher, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Yerevan State University, Armenia
1997 - 2002 Research Assistant Institute of Molecular Biology of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
1998 - 2002 First Category Specialist Department of Specially Protected Natural Areas of the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia
professor of department of Zoology, YSU, Yerevan, Armenia
2004- till now Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Yerevan State University, Armenia

Academic courses
Anatomy of vertebral animals, phylogeny and systematics of vertebtal animals

Scale of professional interests
1. biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles of Armenia and NKR
2. parthenogenesis of rock lizards of genus Darevskia
3. evolution pathways and hybridization;
4. parasites of reptiles;
5. morphology, genetic diversity and conservation status of turtles
6. study of the age, growth, age of sexual maturation, longevity of reptiles

Participation in grant projects (present and past)
2008-2009 Armenian National Science & Education Fund (ANSEF) Survey on the distribution, systematics, and conservation status of terrestrial tortoises (Testudo “graeca”) in the Arax River Valley. Principal Investigator - Marine Arakelyan.
2008-2009 Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation (RSG). Conservation of the last surviving lizard population in the Caucasus – the racerunner Eremias Arguta Transcaucasica in Armenia. Principal Investigator - Marine Arakelyan.
2009-2010 Armenian National Science & Education Fund (ANSEF) Conservation of critically endangered populations of tortoise (Testudo graeca armeniaca) in Ararat Valley. Principal Investigator - Marine Arakelyan.
2010-2012 Gulbenkian Foundation. Preserving Armenian biodiversity: Joint Portuguese – Armenian program for training in modern conservation biology. Principal Investigators - Nuno Ferrand, Miguel A. Carretero, Marine Arakelyan, Sergei Drovetski, Felix Danielyan

Languages
English – good, Russian – fluently, Armenian – as a native speaker

Professional membership (NGO, professional council, editorial staff of scientific journal, funds etc.)
Nikolsky’s Herpetological Society, St.-Petersburg, Russia
IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG)
DEVC-Developing Country Member of Society for Conservation Biology
“Young Biologists Association” NGO

Awards received
2003-2004 Chelonian Research Foundation Linnaeus Fund Turtle Research Award “The distribution of turtles in Armenia”

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