Ph.D. in Philological Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of NAS RA, Head of Folklore Studies Department, Senior Researcher at the Departmen of General and Comparative Linguistics of the Institute of Language after H. Acharyan of NAS RA. Scientific interests: issues of Armenian-Caucasian and Armenian-Iranian folklore, epic studies and linguistics. Co-author of 2 books, author of more than 100 academic papers.