Tamar Tskhadadze

Tamar Tskhadadze graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University with a specialization in Philosophy. She continued her PhD studies (aspirantura) at the same department, where she defended a PhD thesis in 2006. Tskhadadze worked as a lecturer of philosophy (2001-2006) and then as Assistant Professor of philosophy (2006-2008) […]
Ia Shekriladze

Ia Shekriladze is a Psychology doctor, the first USA Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Georgia; In 1994 graduated faculty of Psychology, Tbilisi State University; in 2002 obtained Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University in the city of New York; in 2011 became licensed in the state of California; in 2018 obtained […]
Nino Doborjginidze

Nino Doborjginidze, Doctor of Linguistics (1998) 1976-1981 studied at the Faculty of Philology of Tbilisi State University, specialising in Classical Philology. From 1982 to 2006, she worked at the “Orion” Manuscripts Research Laboratory in the Department of Ancient Georgian Language at Tbilisi State University. Between 1996 and 2000, she was a visiting researcher at the […]
Ketevan Tchanturia

Ketevan Tchanturia is a Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at Royal College London, an Honorary Member of The British Psychological Society, an Honorary Member of the Higher Education Academy of England, and a Visiting Professor at Ilia State University. Ketevan Tchanturia leads the Clinical and Experimental Laboratory with 15 researchers and the Clinical Psychology service […]
Hans Gutbrod

Hans Gutbrod has worked in diverse contexts with policy research, and think tanks. From 2014, he has worked (via Transparify) to increase the transparency of policy research around the world. Hans previously worked as regional director of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), from 2006 to 2012, and has also done research and consulting across […]
Brisku Adrian

Adrian Brisku is an intellectual and comparative historian with a doctoral degree in history from European University Institute, Florence; currently working as Associate Professor in Comparative History at Ilia State University and as Assistant Professor on the Caucasus at Charles University, Prague.Brisku has published several impact factor and peer-reviewed articles from comparative and conceptual history […]
Nino Mamradze

Nino Mamradze completed her undergraduate studies in classical piano at Moscow State Tchaikovsky Coservatory in 1977 (class of prof. Jacob Zak). She got her postgraduate degree from the same conservatory (with distinction) in 1981 (supervisor prof. Lev Vlasenko). From 1979 till 1993 Nino leads an active concert life as a soloist of Georgian State Philharmonic […]
Tilmann Kulke

Tilmann Kulke is Associate Professor of Islamic and Global History at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. His research focuses on premodern intellectual history, Islamic texts, early modern global history, and the connected histories of the Mughal Empire, Georgia, and the Caucasus. He is especially interested in how texts, ideas, empires, and cultural spaces travelled, interacted, […]
Malkhaz Songhulashvli

Was born in 1963. He graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1987. In 1988-2007 he taught eatly church history, theology and Hebrew at Tbisli State University.In 2007-2012 he lived and worked on his doctoral dissertation in Oxford, UK. In 2013 he completed his doctoral dissertation and returned to Georgia. Since 2014 he has been teaching […]
Bela Tsipuria

Bela Tsipuria (b.1967) graduated with honors from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Department of Philology, and earned there her PhD in Georgian Literature (1993). She also worked there as an associate professor. She was a researcher at Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature. She has been a visiting scholar at Lund University, Sweden (1994) and […]