Education:
Graduated from the I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University for Mathematics and Mechanics, January 1968, Diploma of Honour in Mechanics.
Ph.D. (Candidate of Sci.) in Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Razmadze Institute of Mathematics of Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1974. Thesis: "Some Problems for Prismatic Shells with Cusped Edge" (Advisor: Academician, Professor Ilya Vekua).
Dr. Hab. (Doctor of Sci.) in Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, Razmadze Institute of Mathematics of Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1986. Thesis: "Boundary Value Problems for Linear Elliptic Equations with Order Degeneration and Their Applications" (Referees Professor V.A. Kondratiev, Professor A.I.Janushauskas, Professor E.I. Obolashvili).
Work Experience:
2012 – present: Head of Chair of Mechanics of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU)
09.2009 – present: Full Professor of TSU
06.2018 – present: Director, I. Vekua Independent Scientific-Research Institute of Applied Mathematics of TSU
12.2006 – 06.2018: Director, I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of TSU
1994 – 2009 (August): Professor of TSU
1987 – 2006 (December): Deputy Director, I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of TSU
1989 – 1994: Main Research fellow of the Department of Partial Differential Equations (part-time position), I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of TSU Invited Professor of TSU
1981 – 1988, 1974 – 1978: Invited Dozent of TSU
1974 – 1987: Scientific Secretary, I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of TSU
1971 – 1973, 12.02 – 01.06.1968: Junior research fellow, I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of TSU
1971 – 1973: Invited Assistant of TSU
1968 – 1971: Post-graduate of TSU
PH.D. STUDENTS
Supervised the theses of 6 Ph.D students (G. Ziskarishvili (1995), I. Khomasuridze (1999), G.Chichua (1999), N. Gordeziani (2003), N. Chinchaladze (2003), M. Svanadze (2014)).
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2014 – present: Associated Editor of Applicable Analysis
2012 – present: Chairman of the Georgian National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
2007 – present: Member of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics [Gesellschaft Fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM)]
2005 – present: Member of the Georgian Engineering Academy
2002 – present: Member of the EURASC; Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation
2000 – present: Member of the General Assembly (GA) of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM)
Editor of Lecture Notes of Tbilisi International Centre of Mathematics and Informatics (TICMI)
1999 – present: Head of Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences (GANS)
Reviewer, Mathematical Reviews
1998 – present: Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS); Member of the International Society for Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM)
1997 – present: Editor of the Bulletin of TICMI
1996 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal "Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics"
1995 – present: Chairman of the International Scientific Committee of the TICMI
1994 – present: Member (Academician) of the GANS
1991 – present: Member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS)
1975 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of Reports of Seminar of I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics
1974 – present: Reviewer, Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik
1973 – present: Member of the Scientific Council of I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematicss
1968 – present: Member of the Georgian Mathematical Union (GMU)
2013: The Order of Honour
2012-2018: President of the Georgian Mechanical Union
2009 – 2017: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Division of Mathematics of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
2006 – 2017: Hindawi Journal of Applied Mathematics, Associated Editor
1989 – 2013: Member of the Council of the GMU
2000 – 2011: Cochairman of the GNCTAM