Physics and chemistry of materials, materials science
PhD in Physical Chemistry (Karpov Physico-Chemical Institute, Moscow, 1980).
2009-, Institute of Applied Problems of Physics, leading scientific researcher,
2004-2009, Molecule Structure Research Center, leading scientific researcher,
1992-2004, Physics Department of Yerevan State University, Associate Prof.,
1979-1992, Head of a laboratory in the Condensed Media Physics Institute of Yerevan State University
Current interests: Crystalline salts of amino acids.
Publications: more than 290, including 10 inventions and one monograph ((M. Fleck, A.M. Petrosyan, Salts of amino acids: crystallization, structure and properties. Springer, 2014).
Collaborations in frames of various international grants with Prof. Robert Feigelson (Stanford University, CA, USA), Prof. Eric van Stryland (University of Central Florida, FL, USA), Prof. Mikhail Antipin (1951-2013) (New Mexico Highlands University, NM, USA), Prof. Siegfried Haussühl (Köln University, Germany), Prof. Jan Baran (Wrocław, Poland), Dr. Michel Fleck, Prof. Gerald Giester (Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, University of Vienna), Prof. Elena Boldyreva (Novosibirsk State University, Russia), Prof. B.R. Srinivasan (Goa University, Goa, India), Prof. S. Thamotharan (SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, India), Prof. Zbigniew Tylczynski and Prof. Marek Szafrański (Poznan University, Poland)
Awards: The Prize of the President of Armenia in the field of natural sciences for series of papers published during 2005-2007, “Productive 100 scientists in Armenia” all 6 times during 2013-2022. Supervisor of four PhD students.
Current h-index: Scopus: 22, ResearchGate: 23, Google Scholar: 24, i10-index 73, Citation: 2585 (2025-03-02).