Professor Garnik Asatrian is the Head of the Faculty of Iranian Studies at Yerevan State University.Born in Tehran in 1953, he moved to Yerevan in 1968.He has been prolific in his research into Kurdish tribal and linguistic tradition, and instrumental in the establishment of contemporary Kurdish academic study.
He is Head of the newly founded Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies, and is editor of the publication "Acta Kurdica".