Education
1966 - 1967: Yerevan State University, Yerevan; Department of Philology, Russian language and Literature
1967 - 1972: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of History, The Department of the History of Art

Academic degree
17.00.03, 2008: Ph.D National Academy of Sciences Institute of the Arts,
Dissertation “Rubrication in the Illumination System of Armenian Manuscript Gospels”

Professional experience
1973 - Present: National Academy of Sciences-Institute of Arts, Senior Researcher
1992 - 1995: Armenian Palace of Commerce, “Armekspertiza” as a Fine Arts Expert
1993 - 1996: Ministry of Culture of Armenia, expert of art and books in the specialized committee of the export of cultural values
1996: Present – Yerevan State University, UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History
2002 - 2012: Ministry of Culture of Armenia, Expert Centre of Culltural Values, member and an expert of Fine Arts

Academic courses
“Byzantine Art and Iconography”,
“Medieval West-European art”
“The Modern problems of Speciality”

Scale of professional interests
The Problems of Armenian Medieval and Modern Art
Armenian-Byzantine, Armenian -West-European cultural relations in Middle Age

Participation in grant projects
International Scientific Fund, 1993
ANSEF, 2002

Languages
Armenian, Russian, English

Professional membership
1983 - Present: Member of the Union of Artists of Armenia, Section of Art Historians
1999 - 2009: Member of Armenian Artistic Council of the New Coins
2002 - 2010: Member of Armenian State Awards Committee (in Fine Arts)
2007 - 2010: Member of Presidential Youth Awards Committee of R A

Awards received
1992: Moscow, Best Book Competition of CIS countries, II Award (jointly with V. Ghazarian) for the monographie-albom “Матенадаран. Армянская рукописная книга VI-XIV вв, т. I,” Москва, "Книга" , 1991