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, The art of the Armenian communities of Eastern Europe

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 Awarding of the Gold Medal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of YSU Foundation in 2019
Awarding of YSU Silver Medal, 2014