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Armen Trchounian (born on April 29, 1956, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR), is Armenian biophysicist. DSc in Biological sciences (1990) and Professor (2002), Corresponding Member of NAS RA (2006) and Head of Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology of Yerevan State University (since 2016).

Biography
Armen Trchounian was born on April 29, 1956, in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR. He graduated from Yerevan State University with honor diploma (1978), was awarded with Ph.D. (1982) and D.Sc. (1990) from the USSR Supreme Certifying Commission, Moscow. In 1981 he started work at the department of Biophysics of YSU as a Junior Researcher, then continued as a Senior Researcher till 1990. He was a Leading Researcher (Research Professor) (1990-1994) and Professor at the same department (1993-2011). He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago, USA (1991-1992); Invited Professor at Chiba University, Japan and Visiting Fellows at the University of Reading, UK, and University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. He visited Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany for academic stay by DAAD fellowships. In 2011-2016, he was the head of department of Microbiology and Plant and Microbial Biotechnologies of YSU. In 2001-2002 worked at Ministry of Education and Science as the head of the Department of training of scientific and pedagogical personnel. He has a Class rank of state counselor of the 2nd class of the civil service of the RA (the RA President's decree, 2006) In 2002-2010 he was the president of Supreme Certifying Commission of RA. Since 2006, he is a Professor at the Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan, Armenia.

He has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; is laureate of Armenian President’s Prize for Development in Natural Sciences and other national and international prizes and awards. He has been a member of American Society for Microbiology (ASM) since 1999, was awarded with Leadership Grant for International Educators by UNESCO and ASM (2009) and recognized for Outstanding service in ASM Minority Mentoring Program (2011).

Scientific career

 * 1981-1994 - Junior, Senior, then Leading Researcher at the Department of Biophysics of Yerevan State University, Armenia
 * 1993-2011 - Professor at the Department of Biophysics of Yerevan State University, Armenia
 * 2011-2016 - Head of the Department of Microbiology, Plant and Microbial Biotechnologies of Yerevan State University, Armenia
 * Since 2016 - Head of Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology of Yerevan State University, Armenia
 * Since 2005 - Head of research projects funded by the government
 * Since 2015 - Principal Investigator and Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology, Bioenergetics and Biotechnology of Institute of Biology of Yerevan State University
 * 1988 - Fellow at the Institute of Biophysics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Puschino Moscow, Russia
 * 1991-1992 - Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology of the University of Chicago, USA
 * 1995 - Research Fellow, then Invited Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chiba University, Japan (1998)
 * 1998-1999 and 2000-2001 - Visiting Professor at the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences of the University of Reading, UK
 * 1999-2000 - Research Fellow at the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
 * 2013 - Visited Institute of Biology/Microbiology of Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany for academic stay by DAAD fellowships (2013).

Memberships

 * 2009 - Armenian Microbiological Association (FEMS Member Society)
 * 2009 - International Academy for National Security Problems, Russia
 * 2008 - International Engineering Academy, Russia
 * 2007 - Armenian Engineering Academy
 * 2007 - Member of Bureau of the Division of Natural Sciences of the NAS RA
 * 2006 - European Academy of Natural Sciences, Germany
 * 2006 - Academy of Medical Technical Sciences of Russian Federation, Russia
 * 2006 - International Union of Science Knights, Germany
 * 2006 - National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of RA
 * 2005 - Honored Member of the  Ararat  International Academy of Sciences, France
 * 2005 - Armenian Academy of Pedagogical-Psychological Sciences
 * 2004 - Armenian Association of Biochemists (FEBS Member Society); since 2009 - Member of the Council
 * 2003 - Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Russia
 * 2002 - Council of Eolyan Republican Hematological Center, Ministry of Health of the RA
 * 2000 - Biology Program Educational Commission under the National Institute of Education, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1998 - Research Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, USA
 * 1998 - Member and Ambassador of American Society for Microbiology in Armenia
 * 1998 - Biophysical Societies, USA
 * 1994 - The New York Academy of Sciences, USA
 * 1993-1999 - Chairman of Educational-Methodical Board
 * 1991 - European Bioelectromagnetic Association, Belgium-France-Germany
 * 1991 - All-Armenian Biophysical Society, Armenia (IUPAB Observer Society); since 1995 - Member of the Executive Board
 * 1990 - Council of Faculty of Biology of Yerevan State University
 * 1988-1990 - Supervisor of the Student Scientific Society of Biological Faculty of Yerevan State University
 * 1982 - International Bioelectrochemical Scientific Society, USA-France-Germany-Italy-Russia

Awards
Prizes


 * 2019 - The Honored Scientist of the RA
 * 2019 - Moselio Schaecter Award, American Society for Microbiology, Wasington, D.C., USA
 * 2016 - International Association of Hydrogen Energy Akira Mitsui Award
 * 2015 - Prize of UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Innovation Projects National Competition
 * 2014 - The outstanding service award of International Association of Hydrogen Energy for altruistic contribution to the cause of Hydrogen Economy
 * 2011 - The scientific award of excellence – 2011 of the American Biographical Institute (USA) in the field of Biophysics & Biotechnology
 * 2010 - Award of the National Academy of Sciences of RA, Ministry of Diaspora of RA, and Armenians Union of Russia for the best scientific paper in Natural Sciences in 2008
 * 2003 - Prize of the President of RA for the Achievement in Natural Sciences
 * 1984 - Prize for young scientists of YSU

Orders and Medals


 * 2018 - Medal of the President of the National Assembly of RA, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 2016 - Gold Medal of State Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia
 * 2016 - Medal of the Academy of Engineering Sciences after A.M. Prokhorov of Russian Federation
 * 2012, 2009 - Jubilee Medal “Military Forces of Armenia. 20 years”, Marshal Baghramyan Medal, Ministry of Defense of RA
 * 2011, 2008, 2003 - Robert Koch Medal, Vladimir Negovsky Medal, Rudolf Virchow Medal, European Academy of Natural Sciences (Germany)
 * 2010 - Khachatur Abovyan Medal, Armenian Pedagogical State University, Yerevan; Gold Medal of the Military Medicine Faculty, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan; Jubilee Medal of Armenians Union of Russia, Moscow
 * 2008 - Honorary Medal, Armenian Engineering Academy
 * 2007 - Academician N.M. Sissakian Medal, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for the Achievement in Biochemistry and Space Biomedicine (Russia)
 * 2007 - M. Lomonosov Order of the National Committee of Public Rewards of the Russian Federation (Russia)
 * 2006 - Order of the Star of Senator of the European Academy of Natural Sciences, Germany
 * 2006 - Gold Medals of Yerevan State University and Yerevan State Architecture-Construction University
 * 2005 - Gold Medal of Yerevan State Medical University, Memorable Medal of Yerevan State Linguistic University; Honor Deed of the Chairman of the National Assembly of RA for Scientific Achievements
 * 2004 - Honor Cross Order of Merit of the European Academy of Natural Sciences, Germany
 * 2004 - Memorable Gold Medal of the Ministry of Education and Science of RA
 * 1979 - Memorable Medal for the best student research paper of Armenia, Ministry of Higher and Middle Professional Education of Armenia

Honors

Honorary Professor


 * 2014 - Honorary Professor, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University, Yerevan
 * 2007 - Honorary Professor, Mesrop Mashtots University, Stepanakert

Publications
He has published >300 review and original papers in leading international peer-reviewed journals, >25 books and text-books and attended >80 international conferences giving keynote lectures and oral presentations. He is an Editor of peer-reviewed international journals (Elsevier, Frontiers, Hindawi) and Editorial member of numerous international journals. He was supervisor for >25 Ph.D. dissertations.

Books

 * Թռչունյան Ա.Հ., Կենսաբանական թաղանթներ, Դասագիրք, Երևան̦, Զանգակ-97̦, 2001:
 * Թռչունյան Ա.Հ., Կենսաբանություն: 2222 թեստային առաջադրանքների շտեմարան, Երևան, Աստղիկ գրատուն, 2009 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounian A., Potassium transport by bacteria: electrochemical approach, energetics and mechanisms, 2009.
 * Trchounian A., Surface charge and other physical properties of bacterial membranes, 2009.
 * Trchounian A.,Current State and Development Trends in the Highest Scientific Certification | Monography ,Yerevan, 60 p. (in Armenian and Russian, English Summary).
 * Trchounian A., Production of molecular hydrogen by mixed-acid fermentation in bacteria and its energetics, 2009 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounian A., Purple bacteria and cyanobacteria as potential producers of molecular hydrogen: an electrochemical and bioenergetics approach, 2009 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounian A., Proton conductance of bacterial membrane and its role in cell functional activity, 2009 (համահեղինակ):

Publications

 * Trchounian A., Proton motive force in Rhodobacter sphaeroides under anaerobic conditions in the dark | Current Microbiology, V. 62 (2), pp. 415–419 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounian K., Escherichia coli hydrogenase activity and H2 production under glycerol fermentation at a low pH | Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 36, 4323-4331 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounian A., The effects of copper (II) ions on Enterococcus hirae cell growth and the proton-translocating FoF1 ATPase activity | Cell Biochem. Biophys. 57, 19-26 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounian A., Purple bacteria and cyanobacteria as potential producers of molecular hydrogen: An electrochemical and bioenergetic approach | In Bacterial Membranes (Trchounian A., ed.). Research Signpost, Kerala (India), p. 233–273 (համահեղինակ):

Thesises

 * Трчунян А.А., Дрожжевый экстракт как источник азота при росте и выделении молекулярного водорода пурпурной бактерией Rhodobacter sphaeroides, “Проблемы биохимии, радиационной и космической биологии”, Алушта, 5-9 сентября, с. 61-64 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounyan A., Creation of new ferments with lactic acid bacteria from dairy products of different regions of Armenia | ISTC Conference «Modern State of Biotechnological Developments and Ways of Their Commercialization», Yerevan, Armenia, 2012, p. 59-60 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounyan A., Some properties of lactic acidnbacteria isolated in Armenia | ISTC International conference: «Bacteriophages and Probiotics–Alternatives to Antibiotics», Tbilisi, Georgia, 2012, p. 106 (համահեղինակ):
 * Trchounian A., Is the high potassium ion concentration requested for the E. coli growth and metabolic activity? | Sov. Biotechnology 1, 55 (համահեղինակ):