Date and Place of Birth: July 5, 1956, Yerevan, Armenia
Citizenship and Nationality: Armenia

2000	Doctor of Sciences, Physics (habilitation), Yerevan State University (Yerevan, Armenia) Thesis: "On the theory of free-free transitions and free-electron laser"
1989	Candidate of Phys. Math. Sciences in Theoretical Physics, Yerevan State University (Yerevan, Armenia). Thesis: "On coherent radiation processes of free charged particles" Advisor: Professor Dr. H. K. Avetissian

since 2004	Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
1991 - 2004	Senior Research Associate, Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Yerevan State University (Yerevan, Armenia) Since 1994 - Leading Research Associate in the Plasma Physics Laboratory
1987 - 1991	Research Associate, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Institute for Applied Problems of Physics, Academy of Science (Yerevan, Armenia)
1985 - 1987	Research Assistant, Department of General Physics, Yerevan State University (Yerevan, Armenia)
1984 - 1985	Research Assistant, Institute for Applied Problems of Physics, Academy of Science (Yerevan, Armenia)

2006	A graduate course at Heidelberg University (shared with Dr. D. Bauer): "Theory of intense laser-matter interaction"
1991 - 2001	Graduate courses at Yerevan State University: "Electrodynamics of Continuous Media", "Oscillations and Waves", "Nonlinear Physics", "Radiative Processes", "Plasma Physics", "Plasma Electronics"

2004	Max Planck Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, from July 2004 to June 2007
2003	Return Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, from September 2003 to June 2004
2002	Georg Forster Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, at Theoretische Quantendynamik, Freiburg University (Freiburg, Germany) from February 2, 2002 to May 31, 2003
1999	DAAD (German Foundation for Academic Exchange) grant for a Study Visit at the division Theoretische Quantendynamik, Freiburg University (Freiburg, Germany) from September 25 to November 25, 1998
1998	Travel Grant of the Open Society Institute for initiation of collaboration, spent at Theoretische Quantendynamik, Freiburg University (Freiburg, Germany) from October 10 to November 10, 1998
1993	Individual Grant of the International Science Foundation (Soros)

Physical Review Letters, since 2005; Physical Review A, since 2006; Physical Review STAB, since 2007; The European Physical Journal D, since 2007; OSA Journals, since 2008

Strong field optical physics. Relativistic nonlinear optics. High energy laser physics. HHG and ATI in relativistic regimes. Strong field physics in the XUV domain. Nonlinear QED vacuum polarization effects in strong laser fields. Laser-driven collider. Radiation reaction effects in strong laser fields. Stimulated radiative processes with free electrons including nonlinear and multiphoton effects. Free electron lasers and free-free transitions. An earlier minor research interest was connected with the interaction of acoustic waves with low-temperature plasma.

Armenian - mother tongue, Russian - fluent, English - good, German - fair.