He graduated from Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University. Faculty of History. Archaeology. Qualification: Historian.
He defended his doctoral thesis in 2017. Topic: “Political-economic and ethnological-confessional aspects of the numismatic material found in Svaneti. (B.C., 5th – 18th century AD), was published as a book in 2020.
2022 – until now he is the main scientific employee of the Caucasus Scientific Research Institute, 2012-2023 Ilia State University. guest lecturer. at the Faculty of Sciences and Arts. 2004-2022. National Museum of Georgia. Senior Curator of Numismatic Collections. 1995 – 2007 Chief Scientific Editor of the Georgian Encyclopedia named after Irakli Abashidze. Leading Scientific Editor of Archeology and Numismatics.
In 2012, he received an international scholarship from the German Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Within the framework of the scholarship, he worked on the numismatic collection of Mikheil Baratashvili (Barataev) preserved in the Bode Museum in Berlin. He is the author of: Svaneti, Akhaltsikhe, Martvili, Lechkhumi, Gori, Stefantsminda museums curator of numismatic exhibitions. In 2016, he was the author and curator of the concept of the permanent exhibition of the National Museum of Georgia.
Ancient and Medieval Studies. Research of Georgian, Eastern, Byzantine and European numismatic material. Museum case. Archaeology, ethnology, glyptics, epigraphy.
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Ethnoarchaeology and Numismatics; Fundamentals of Numismatics; Georgia and the Western world, according to numismatic material; Georgian Numismatics
Ethnoarchaeology and Numismatics; Fundamentals of Numismatics
2015-2016 (Spring), 2016-2017 (Spring), 2017-2018 (Spring), 2018-2019 (Spring), 2019-2020 (Spring), 2020-2021 (Spring), 2021-2022 (Spring), 2022 - 2023 (autumn) during academic years - "Fundamentals of Numismatics"; During the 2018-2019 (autumn), 2020-2021 (autumn-spring), 2021-2022 (spring), 2022-2023 (spring) academic years - "Georgian Numismatics"; Also, he was invited as a teacher for a semester at the Faculty of Engineering, where he taught courses during the following semesters: 2012-2013 academic year (spring) - "Georgian Numismatics"; 2014-2015 academic year (autumn) – "Fundamentals of numismatics".