Education (beginning with IHE)
M. Sc. Physical Chemistry (Full Course), Yerevan State University, 1970
Physical Chemistry (post-graduate Course) Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow , 1973

Academic degree
Candidate - “Quantitative Study of Nuclear Polarization and magnetic Effects in Chemical Reactions”, 1975, Yerevan State University.
Doctoral - “Intermolecular Interactions and Reactions of Sulfoxides, Sulfides Ethers and Amines.”, 1989, Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the University Rostov-Don, Russia

Professional experience
Junior Scientific Researcher, Yerevan State University, 1974 - 1977
Senior Scientific Researcher, Yerevan State University, 1977 - 1989
Professor and Head of Research Group, Yerevan State University, 1989 - 2000
Head of Chair of Physical Chemistry, Yerevan State University, 2000 - present

Visiting Positions
University Zurich, Switzerland (postdoc, Prof. H.Fischer,,s group), 1991
Visiting Professor, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University Zurich and Institute of Physical Chemistry, University Basel, Switzerland, 2000
Fellowship, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University Muenster, Germany (Prof. M.Stockhausen`s group),1998
Fellowship University Regensburg, Germany (Prof. R. Buchner`s group), 2006
Fellowship University Bochum, Germany (Prof. H. Weingartner`s group), 2010
Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, University of Bologna, Italy, 1998, 2000, 2003
Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA (Prof. F. Lewis group), 1999, 2004
Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis (Prof. W. R. Fawcett`s group), 2000
Visiting Researcher, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2008
Visiting Professor, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Reims, France, 2008
Visiting Professor, University Rostock, Germany, 2009
Visiting Professor, University of Saarland, Germany, 2011

Academic courses
Special Courses on Molecular Spectroscopy,
General Course on Physical Chemistry
Statistical thermodynamics
Biophysical Chemistry

Scale of professional interests
Physicochemical studies of chemical and biological systems. Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy, Solvation Effects, FT IR, Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Participation in grant projects (present and past)
Armenian National Science and Education Fund (ANSEF),
05-NS-biochem-0830-415, 2006
National Foundation of Science and Advanced Technologies (NFSAT) and U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), Armenian-U.S. Bilateral Grants Program-III, NFSAT CH 103-02/ CRDF 12033, 2003-2004
International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), A-199-99, 1999-2002
Armenian National Science and Education Fund (ANSEF), NS- # 1534, 2009
Bilateral research project ARM 11/002 between Yerevan State University, Armenia and Saarland University, Germany supported by BMBF; runs from 01.11.2011 until 31.10.2013

Languages
Armenian, English, Germany, Russian

Professional membership
1992 - 2004: Member of editorial board of Armenian Journal of Chemistry
2000 - 2006: Member of editorial board of Communications of YSU
2002 - 2006: Member of Counsel award of Science Degree
2005 - 2007: Member of Counsel for educational programs

Awards received
Presidential award of the Republic of Armenia in area of natural sciences. “Cellular membrane transport enzymathyc activity and their interaction with sulfur-containing organic compounds”, 2003
Best Scientific Work of the Republic of Armenia in area of natural sciences, 2010

(+374 10) 55-51-72
shmarkar@ysu.am