Date of Birth:              October 6, 1973

Place of Birth:             Tbilisi, Georgia

Education:

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, Degree: PhD in Mathematics (Astrophysics), 2006.

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Faculty of Physics, MSc. Theoretical Physics, 1995.

Work Experience:      

Ivane javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics,

Associate Professor, 2009-current.

Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Ilia State University, Researcher, 2015-current.

Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Adjunct Associate Professor, 2012-current.

Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Ilia State University, Associated Researcher, 2007-2011.

Ivane javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics,

Invited Lecturer, 2007-2009.

Observatoire de Paris / Meudon, France, Visiting Fellow, 2007.

Department for Extragalactic Astronomy, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy, Research Assistant, 2005-2007.

Administrative Experience:

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University:

Chair of the Editorial Board – Section of Physics, 2015-current,

Member of the Senate 2016-2017,

Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Vice Dean, 2014-2015,

Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Scientific Secretary of the Dissertation Council, 2012-2016,

Students Research Project Funding Council, 2017,

Member and chair of the international student’s exchange program committee, 2013-2016/2017.

Referee:         

Research Journals: Physical Review E, D, Letters (APS), Latvian Council of Science, National Centre for Research and Development, Poland.

Research Interests:

Dynamics of Accretion and Protoplanetary Disks, Shear Flows, Numerical Simulation of Astrophysical Flows, Aeroacoustics, Rheological Flows in Astrophysics; Jeans Instability, Cosmological Magnetic Fields, Turbulence.

Research Grants:

National and International research projects funded by: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (Georgia), National Science Foundation (USA), Swiss national Science Foundation, European Commission FP7 program, Italian Government Study and Research Program, FWO Flaanderen (Belgium), International Science and Technology Center, Civil Research and Development Foundation.

Research Papers: http://mes.gov.ge/s/DolBx

Awards:

Eugenie Kharadze Prize in Astrophysics, Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Georgia, 2009.

Languages:     Georgian, Russian, English.