I am a sociologist, peace and conflict scholar, and social science researcher with around thirteen years of experience across academic, policy, and applied research. My work is geographically centred on the post-Soviet region and substantively concerned with how societies experience, interpret, and normalise crises, conflict, peace, political change, and broader processes of social transformation.

I am currently based in Yerevan, Armenia. I serve as Research Director at CRRC-Armenia Foundation, teach at Yerevan State University, and am a Scientific Researcher at the Research Lab for Agency and Institutional Change. Across these roles, I work at the intersection of research, institutional practice, and public knowledge, designing studies, leading complex research processes, developing methodological approaches, and translating evidence into forms that can speak both to academic debates and to real-world problems.

My research interests bring together conflict and peace, social movements, collective action, agency and structure, culture and identity, normalcy and social change. I am particularly interested in the relationship between individual and collective agency, institutional conditions, and the meanings through which people make sense of political and social processes.

A central strand of my academic work has focused on social mobilisation in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. More recently, my interests have expanded towards questions of societal demobilisation, peace processes, border politics, displacement, identity, and the everyday consequences of prolonged conflict and political transition. Alongside these themes, I work extensively on and with public opinion and broader social research, including studies of democracy and governance, discrimination and rights, education, media, political participation, and public attitudes.

Methodologically, I am especially interested in research design, mixed-methods research, and process-oriented approaches. My work draws on qualitative and quantitative methods depending on the question at hand, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, comparative analysis, and mixed-method designs. I am also increasingly interested in process mining and in how process-oriented thinking can help us understand institutions, organizations, and patterns of social action.

A recurring concern in my work is the relationship between international research know-how and local knowledge. I am drawn to research that is rigorous without becoming detached from context, and to methodological choices that remain sensitive to uncertainty, interpretation, positionality, and the social worlds behind the data.

Beyond research itself, I have extensive experience in research and development, organizational and process management, and strategic communications. I am interested not only in producing good research, but also in the systems, teams, and institutional cultures that make sustained research quality possible.

Outside academia and professional research, I am drawn to philosophy, photography, and narrative storytelling, and I tend to approach all three with the same curiosity that shapes my research: an interest in how people construct meaning, tell stories, and locate themselves within larger social processes. I also care deeply about inclusion, equality, and the value of plural perspectives.