Dr. Areg Mickaelian (Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia)
b. 1962 in Yerevan, Armenia, PhD 1994
Leading Scientist and Head of Research Department, Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)
Director, Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO, 2017-)
Director, International Astronomical Union (IAU) South West and Central Asian (2015-)
Acting President, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Armenian National Committee for Astronomy (NCA)
Acting President, Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS, 2001-)
Vice Chair, Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS, 2012-)
Project Manager, Armenian Virtual Observatory (ArVO, 2005-)
Executive Committee member, International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA, 2005-)
Steering Committee member, International Planetary Data Alliance (IPDA)
Director, Byurakan International Summer Schools (BISS, 2006-)
Research interests: astronomical surveys, blue stellar objects, QSOs and Seyfert galaxies, IR galaxies, X-ray sources, extragalactic radio sources, white dwarfs, cataclysmic variables, Virtual Observatories (VOs)
Current Projects:
BAO Research Department (2017-) Astronomical Surveys
RA Science Committee Advanced Research Grant 2021-2026 Revelation of Early Stages of Galaxies Evolution by Means of Multiwavelength Study of Active Galaxies
ANSEF grant 2022-2023 Search and studies of luminous X-ray galaxies
COST action CA18104 2019-2023 Revealing the Milky Way with Gaia
Academic Visits:
Visiting Astronomer and Visiting Professor at Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP, France), Observatoire de Lyon (France), Hamburger Sternwarte (HS, Germany), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA), Leibniz-Intitut fur Astrophysik (AIP, Potsdam, Germany), Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI, Heidelberg, Germany), University of Naples Federico II (Italy), Institute de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides (IMCCE, France), Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (OBSPM, France), Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP, France), LATMOS (UVSQ, France)
Honours and Awards:
World Summit Award (WSA) IT award for the best e-Science Project (DFBS, 2005)
Republic of Armenia President’s Annual Prize in Physics (2020)
University of Hawaii Distinguished Visitors Award (2015)
Tel Aviv University Distinguished Visitors Award (2017)
Top-100 Most Productive Scientists of Armenia
Tigran Metz medal from Aspetats Academy of International Security (2017)
Russian International Academy of Tourism medal (2019)
Letters of Commendation from IAU/UNESCO (International Year of Astronomy, IYA-2009), Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Armenian Ministry of Education and Science, Armenian Ministry of Culture,
Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS)
Publications:
425 publications according to Astrophysics Data System (ADS), including 168 papers refereed journals, 131 proceedings of meetings, 24 books and booklets, 17 papers in books, 22 electronic catalogs, etc.
Review papers in Astronomy Reports, Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (A&ApTr), Iranian Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IJAA), etc.
Editing of a number of Proceedings of meetings published by Cambridge University Press (CUP), Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), Aracne Editrice (Rome, Italy), etc.
