Education
2001-2004: Post-graduate student, YSU, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Iranian Studies
1990-1995: Student, YSU, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Iranian Studies

Academic degree
2004: PhD candidate – “The Old Language of Azerbaijan”

Professional experience
2013: Senior Researcher in Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts
2007: Associate Professor, YSU, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Iranian Studies
2001: Lecturer, YSU, Department of Iranian Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies
1994-1999 Editor and translator in the Public Radio of Armenia

Academic courses
Azari, the Old Language of Aturpatakan (reading and interpretation of sources)
Fundamentals of Iranian Ethnology
Reading of Classical Persian Texts
Fundamentals of Toponymy
Persian Language

Scale of professional interests
Ethno-linguistic Situation in Azerbaijan, The Ancient Iranian Dialect of Azerbaijan, Iranian Dialectology and Toponymy

Languages
Armenian, Russian and Persian (fluent), English and French (good)

Professional membership
Member of the Editorial Group of scholarly journals “Orientalia” and “Iran-name”