Forensic Science and Crime Research

Argam Hovsepyan

Designation: Director

Department: Department of Criminology, Law

Institution: National Bureau of Expertises of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

Country: Armenia

Dr. Hovsepyan is currently Director of the National Bureau of Expertises of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NBE). He has 16-year experience in forensic expertise field. He has joined the Organization since 2005 first as a doctor-forensic medical expert, afterwards head of medical errors unit, head of living persons unit of medical expertise department and head of medical expertise department. He was an assistant of Forensic Medical Department at RA National Institute of Healthcare after Academician S. Kh. Avdalbekyan. Dr.Hovsepyanwas concurrently a lecturer, head of Cycle of Forensic Medicine Chair at Armenian Medical Institute and is concurrently head of Forensic Medicine Chair at Armenian Medical Institute.

He was qualified as Physician in the field of General Medicine by Yerevan State Medical University after MkhitarHeratsi, the Republic of Armenia and was awarded a Physician degree in the field of Forensic Medical Examination by National Institute of Health named after ac. S. Avdalbekyan, the Republic of Armenia. He has been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Medicine by the Resolution of RA Supreme Certifying Commission - Health Organization-045 Specialized Council. The thesis title was as follows: “The Complex Expert Estimate of Medical Care Defects Taking into Consideration the Possibility of Emotional Burnout Syndrome Development”.

He is an author of more than 15 scientific works. He is the chairman of the Scientific Council acting in the Organization and the chairman of the Qualification Commission of forensic experts under National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. He is a permanent representative of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI).