I received M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Case Western Reserve University in 2003 and 2007 respectively. I received B.S. in Physics from the Yerevan State University in 1996. I worked as a postdoctoral research associate from 2006 to 2014 in University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Since 2014, I am an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Northern Iowa. My area of expertise is computational and theoretical condensed matter physics and materials science.