Education:
Master of Science                 Moscow State University                 Jun 1974
Major: Physical Anthropology

Academic Profile:
Candidate of Science (PhD)         Moscow State University                    Dec 1977
Doctor of Science (ScD)             Institute of General Genetics                  Feb 1989
Russian Academy of Sciences

Work Experience:
Since November 2007             head, Ethnogenomics Laboratory,
Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA

since 2009 – to present:            lecturer, professor,
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University

April 1991- to present:             head, Laboratory of Anthropology,
chairman, “Institute of Man” LLC

October 1995 – October 1996        rector, Artsakh State University, 
Artsakh Republic

September 1981 – July 2015        lecturer, Yerevan State University

July 1978 – April 1991            senior researcher associate,
Yerevan State Medical University

2002 – 2014:     co-director of Azokh Cave excavation team, 
Artsakh Republic

since 2014 – to present:    director of Qarin Tak Cave excavation team,
    Artsakh Republic

Courses taught in universities:
•    “Origins of the peoples of the Near East and the Caucasus”
•    “Theory of evolution and population genetics”
•    “Evolution of human social behaviour”

Supervision of PhD projects: 
Successfully graduated 12 PhD and 15 MSc students.


Membership in scientific societies:
•    since 1992 – president of the Armenian Anthropological Society
•    since 1994 – national representative of the European Anthropological Association
•    since 2014 – member of the council of the European Anthropological Association

Academic visits:
•    Department of Anthropology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium (1992)
•    Institute of Anthropology, University of Florence, Italy (1998, 2005)
•    Basic Medical Sciences Laboratory, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt (1998)
•    6-month academic visit to the Centre for Genetic Anthropology, University College London, UK (1999), funded by Royal Society scholarship
•    The Centre for Genetic Anthropology (TCGA), University College London, UK (2002, 2004, 2006, 2009)
•    Estonian Biocenter, Tartu, Estonia (2008)
•    Tehran University of Medical Sciences (2003, 2005)
•    University of Tarragona, Spain (2009), funded by Erasmus Mundus scholarship
•    Middle East Technological University, Ankara, Turkey (2014)
•    University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2012, 2015, 2018)
•    University of Thessaloniki, Trikala, Greece (2014, 2015)
•    Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2014)  
•    Polish National Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw (2016, 2017)
•    University of Cambridge, UK (2017, 2018)

Lectures on genetic history of Armenians delivered for the Armenian Diaspora
communities:
•    London (UK) – 1999, 2002
•    Krasnodar (Russia) – 2003, 2007, 2010
•    Moscow, St Petersburg (Russia) – 2010
•    Rostov-on-Don region (Russia) – 2012
•    Detroit area (USA) – 2003
•    Tehran, Isfahan (Iran) – 2003, 2005
•    Beirut (Lebanon) – 2012
•    Lyon (France) –  2018
•    Montebello, Fresno, Boston (USA) – 2019

Honors, awards, scholarships:
•    Award of Excellence at secondary school
•    Soros Foundation Award for Scientific Achievements, 1993
•    Royal Society (UK) extra-quota scholarship for short-term academic visit to the UK, 1999
•    EU "Erasmus Mundus” scholarship in “Quaternary and Prehistory” to third country scholars, 2009
•    Jubilee medal of Prime Minister of Artsakh Republic (2011)
•    Honorary diploma of the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2016)
•    “Vachagan Barepasht” medal: for editing of and contributing to the book “Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor” (2016)
•    Gold medal of the State Committee of Science, the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia (2016)  

Publications:
•    92 full papers in peer-reviewed journals and books
•    115 abstracts and materials in the proceedings of scientific meetings
•    4 books:
    Yepiskoposyan L. (2000) Genetics of growth processes in the Armenian population. Yerevan, “Tirast”, 170 p. (in Russian)
    Hakobyan M., Yepiskoposyan L. (2008) The reasons of infant mortality in Armenia. Yerevan, “Limoush”, 128 p. (in Armenian)
    Yepiskoposyan L. (2008) When genetics and history collide. Yerevan, 155 p. (in Russian)
    Fernández-Jalvo Y., King, T., Yepiskoposyan L., Andrews, P. (Eds.) (2016) Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor. Springer, 349 p.

Participation in scientific documentaries:
Shooting documentary and popular science films about the excavation in Artsakh (with the film makers from Artsakh TV company) – in 2004, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019.

Current projects:
•    Genetic history of the Armenian and neighbouring populations of the Middle East and the Caucasus (based on modern and ancient DNA)
•    Genetic mapping of historical Armenia
•    Excavations in the Neolithic cave, Yeghegnadzor region, Armenia