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Giving you a glimpse from Prof. Garabed Antranikian's notable biography, a prominent world-famous microbiologist. 💡 Dr. Garabed Antranikian has a prolific academic and professional background, from having over 200 peer-reviewed publications to coordinating large-scale projects to becoming the President of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2011 to 2018 and serving as the chairman and member of numerous prominent institutions and high-level platforms. He studied #biology at the American University of Beirut, and in 1980 he completed his Ph.D. in Microbiology at The University of Göttingen, Germany, where he has also been appointed professorship in #microbiology since 1989. In 2004, Dr. Antranikian received the most prestigious prize for environment protection by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. 🔸️ Currently, Prof. Antranikian is the chairman of the IBN Industrial Biotechnology North. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Hamburg and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences (acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften). Since 2007 he has been the coordinator of the 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 and the 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘆𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 clusters of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Since February 2018, he has been CEO of the Center for Biobased Solutions focusing on interdisciplinary projects on #bioeconomy and Chair of the Board of Advisors of Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (#FAST). Dr. Antranikian has an h-index - 63, peer-reviewed international publications - 230, international patents - 162. He has supervised dissertations Ph.D. - 52, and he will conduct a short course here in Armenia at FAST Creative Campus this week. #FASTfoundation #ADVANCEbyFAST #FAST4science #technology #science #research #education