Education
1988-1993 Department of Physics, Yerevan State University

Academic degree
2002 Ph.D in Physics, from The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thesis title: World-sheet and target space properties of String theory in the presence of D-branes

Professional experience
2001 –2004 Postdoctoral research fellow at the High Energy Section of the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
2005– 2007 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Physics of the
University of Rome ``Tor Vergata" and INFN section Rome``Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
2008–2009 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
2009–2010 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of
Mathematical Sciences of the University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
2011– Researcher at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

Academic courses
Department of Physics of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
•Quantum Mechanics
•Mechanics
•Elementary Particles Physics
•Quantum Field Theory
•Waves and Oscillations
Department of Mathematics of the University of Aarhus
•Higgs Bundles and the Geometric Langlands Program
Department of Physics of Yerevan State University
•Basis of Conformal Field Theories with boundaries and defects

Scale of professional interests
Conformal field Theories, String Theory, Topological Field Theory

Participation in grant projects
ANSEF grant #hepth-3267
ANSEF grants # PS2774.

Languages
Armenian, Russian, English, Hebrew, Italian

gor.sarkissian@ysu.am