Education
1977-1982, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University (YSU)

Academic degree
1987, PhD, Thesis title “Electromagnetic vacuum effects in presence of macroscopic bodies”, YSU
2011, Doctor of Sciences, Thesis title “Some questions of scalar-tensor gravity and effective string cosmology”, YSU

Professional experience
1982 – 1986, PhD student, Faculty of Physics, YSU
1992 – 1996, Assistant of Professor, Faculty of Physics, YSU
1996 – 2008, Docent, Faculty of Physics, YSU
1987 – present, Leading scientist, Institute of Applied Problems of Physics NAS RA
2003 – 2009, Regular Associate, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
2006, 2011, Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Paraiba Federal University, Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
2008 – 2018, Professor, Faculty of Physics, YSU
2016 – 2018, Head of Department of Science Policy, State Committee of Science, Republic of Armenia
2017 – present, Head of Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, YSU
2018 – present, Professor, Head of the Chair of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, YSU

Academic courses
Classical Mechanics
Classical Field Theory
Quantum Mechanics
Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
Vector and Tensor Analysis
Cosmology
Qualitative Analysis of Dynamical Systems
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spaces
Theories of Gravity and Their Astrophysical and Cosmological Applications
Theory of Strings and Branes

Scale of professional interests Theories of Gravity, Cosmology, Relativistic Astrophysics
Quantum Field Theory Under External Influences
High Energy Electromagnetic Processes in Inhomogeneous Media and in Presence of Acoustic Waves
Theory of Superdense Stellar Configurations

Participation in grant projects
1996 – 2000, Grant 96-855, Ministry of Education and Science, RA
1998 – 2000, ISTC Grant A100
1998 – 2000, INTAS Grant
2001 ANSEF Grant PS14-00
2000 – 2004, Grants 0887, 1361, 119, Ministry of Education and Science, RA
2003 DAAD Grant, Germany
2005 ANSEF Grant
2005 CNR-NATO Grant, Italy
2006, 2011CAPES Grant, Brazil
2008, 2010, 2012 CNPq Grant, Brazil
2011 APS Grant, USA
2013-2015 Grant 13-1C040, State Committee of Science RA
2015-2017 Grant 15T-1C110, State Committee of Science RA
2016 ANSEF Grant
2020 Grant 20RF-059, Science Committee RA
2021 PMI Research Grant, Philip Morris
2021 Grant 21AG-1C047, Science Committee RA

Languages
Armenian, Russian, English

Professional membership
Member of Specialized Council 049 Physics
Member of Editorial Board of Journal “Astrophysics”
Member of Editorial Board of Journal “Symmetry”

Awards received 1989, Honorable Mention by Gravity Research Foundation, USA
2005, Armenia President’s Prize
2019, Yerevan State University Gold Medal

E-mail
saharian@ysu.am