Director of the High Energy Physics Institute at Tbilisi State University; Doctor of Physics and Math. Sciences, Professor; Winner of the American Physics Society prize, of the Join Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna) award and the Georgian National prize; Under his leadership the High Energy Physics Institute collaborates with the Jülich Research Center; Heads projects financed by international and local science foundations; Participant in international and local conferences and symposiums; 130 scientific publications, 65 of which are published in international journals; He was awarded the Order of Honor.