Prof. Astsatryan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Yerevan State University, Armenia. He is also a Habilitation recipient from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France, where he defended his research on “Service Tradeoff for HPC and Big Data Infrastructures” in 2020.

Dr. Astsatryan has held several fellowships, including a doctoral fellowship at the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary (2005-2006) and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France (2006-2007). His research interests span several areas, including high-performance and scientific computing, high-performance data analytics, data management and open data, and large-scale energy-aware distributed systems.

Dr. Astsatryan has published over 100 articles in various prestigious journals, conferences, and workshops, and several entities, including EC Framework Programmes, ISTC, INTAS, SNCF, and CRDF have sponsored his research. In 2023, he was awarded the Commemorative Medal of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and in 2005, by the President of the Republic of Armenia for his outstanding work in Technical Sciences and Information Technologies. Dr. Astsatryan serves as the National Contact Point from Armenia for Research Infrastructures in Horizon Europe and is an active member of several prestigious organizations, including the European Open Science Cloud or the pan-European Geant network.