Associate Professor at the Georgian Philology Department of Tbilisi State University Faculty of Humanities; Doctor of Philology. After completing her studies in classic philology at TSU, she joined the Department of Byzantine Studies at the G. Tsereteli Institute for Oriental Studies; was awarded the degree in Philology in 2009 and a PhD in Philology in 2005; worked in the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She supervised the programme “Medieval Christian East’’ from 2008-2010 and has received Georgian and international scientific scholarships and grants. Scholarly awards: VTB Bank prize “Parnassus”; and in 2006 educational program “Old Georgian Translation Theory and Practice” (with D. Melikishvili and K. Bezarashvili).