Graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanization of the former Armenian Agricultural Institute (1968), Candidate of Technical Sciences (1979), Docent (1983), Doctor of Technical Sciences (1997), Professor (2002), Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (2006), Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (2014).

Rector of the National Agrarian University of Armenia (1998-2018). Chief Researcher of the Department of Mechanization of Field Cultivation and Livestock Husbandry of the Research Institute of Agricultural Mechanization and Automation of NAUA (since 2019). Member of the Professional Council "Agricultural Mechanization and Machinery".

Honorary Doctor of the Timiryazev State Agrarian University of the Russian Federation, Krasnodar Agrarian University, and agricultural universities in Belarus, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. Member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal "Bulletin of Agrarian Sciences" of Georgia.

Medal “Anania Shirakatsi” (2000), Gold Medal of the Russian Federation “Timiryazev” (2004), Socrates Prize and Medal (Great Britain, 2007), Honored Scientist of the Republic of Armenia (2011)

Author of 250 scientific works, including 16 monographs (one of which was published in English in the Federal Republic of Germany), 3 textbooks, as well as 50 inventions (copyright certificates and licenses).