Family name, First name: Sahakyan, Narek
Researcher unique identifier: ORCID: 0000-0003-2011-2731
Date of birth: 09 September 1986
Nationality: Republic of Armenia
Tel:+374 55 043969
email: narek.sahakyan(at)icranet.org; narsahakyan(at)gmail.com
2022 Doctor of Sciences (ֆիզմաթ գիտությունների դոկտոր)
2012 PhD, Sapienza University of Rome IRAP PhD
2009 Master, Yerevan State University, physics department, Armenia.
2016 – Director
ICRANet Armenia Centre, Armenia
2016 – Adjoint professor
International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, Italy
2014 – 2016 Researcher
National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
2013 – 2014 Post-Doctoral researcher
Sapienza University of Rome, ICRANet, Italy
2006 – 2009 Laboratory assistant
Yerevan Physics Institute after A. Alikhanian, Armenia
2009 – 2012 IRAP PhD Fellowship, Sapienza University of Rome/ICRA, Italy.
2019 – 2022 Among the most active and productive top 100 Armenian researchers in all disciplines.
2016 – 2018 Among the most active and productive young researchers of Armenia in all disciplines.
2017 Prize for the Best Youth Scientific Achievement in Armenia.
2023 Award of the National Academy of Sciences of the
Republic of Armenia.
2024 High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology in the Era of All-Sky Surveys (HEACOSS- 2024), co-chair of the SOC, chair of LOC ~ 110 participants, Armenia.
2024 Co-chair of parallel session in Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Pescara, Italy.
2023 The Fifth Zeldovich meeting, chair of LOC ~ 100 participants, Armenia.
2021 Co-chair of parallel session in Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, Italy.
2019 MAGIC collaboration meeting in Armenia, main organizer, 60 participants, Armenia.
2019 Armenian-Italian Science Day, main organizer, 40 participant, Armenia.
2014 1st Scientific ICRANet Meeting in Armenia: Black Holes: the largest energy sources in the Universe, Co-chair of LOC ~ 80 participants, Armenia.
2021 The 17th Italian-Korean Symposium for Relativistic Astrophysics, program Committee, 80 participants, South Korea.
2015, 2018, 2021, 2024 Marcel Grossmann Meetings International Coordinating Committee on Recent Developments in Theoretical and
2018 (2020) The Third (Fourth) Zeldovich meetings, International Coordinating Committee, 80 (146) participants, Belarus.
2023 – 2026 Supervisor of the PhD Thesis by Mher Khachatryan at ICRANet Armenia, exploring the application of AI in astrophysics.
2022 – 2025 Supervisor of the PhD Thesis by Manvel Manvelyan at ICRANet Armenia, examining the correlation of emission from blazars in different bands.
2020 – 2023 Supervisor of the PhD Thesis by David Israyelyan at ICRANet Armenia, investigating the optical/UV and X-ray properties of blazars.
2020 – 2023 Supervisor of the PhD Thesis by Gevorg Harutyunyan at ICRANet Armenia, concentrating on processes occurring in high-redshift blazar jets.
2016 – 2019 Co-supervisor of the PhD Thesis by Sargis Gasparyan at ICRANet Armenia, which addressed high-energy processes in jets.
2016 – 2019 Co-supervisor of the PhD Thesis by Mile Karlica, EMJD IRAP PhD program, centered on non-thermal processes in GRB afterglows.
2015 – 2018 Co-supervisor of the PhD Thesis by Vardan Baghmanyan at Yerevan State University, devoted to studying emission from non-blazar AGNs.
2015 – 2018 Co-supervisor of the PhD Thesis by David Zargaryan at ICRANet Armenia, focusing on processes occurring in large-scale jets.
2014 – 2021 Supervisor for approximately seven Master's students from the Physics and Radiophysics Departments of Yerevan State University, Armenia, overseeing diverse research projects.
2018 – Member of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network Scientific Committee, Italy, the representative of Armenia
2017 – Member of the MAGIC collaboration Board; international collaboration, the representative of Armenia
2016 – IRAP PhD Faculty Staff, ICRANet, Italy
2016 – Graduate Student Advisor, Yerevan State University
2018 – Member of Division of Physics and Astrophysics Bureau, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
2019 – Reviewer, the Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020 – Grant proposal reviewer, Science Committee of Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia