Full Professor, Agricultural University of Georgia

Honorary citizen of State Georgia, USA (2006)

Member of Georgian National Academy of Sciences

President of Georgian National Academy of Sciences.

Member of Editorial Boards of international Journals (Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry), two Journals of Russian Academy of Sciences (Biochemistry, Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology), Don State Technical University’s journal “Science Almanac of Black Sea Region Countries” Editorian council of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry journal Biotechnologia Acta. Editor-in-Chif Journal of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.)

Associated member of NATO Life Sciences and Technologies Panel (1999-2001).

Member of Israeli-France Hi-Tech Association. Expert of Euro Council in Biotechnology.

Held over 80 seminars in the USA, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, England, Spain, Italy, Japan.

Member of International Association of Academies of Sciences (2013)

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2013)

Member of the world Academy of Art and Sciences (2013)

Was awarded Commemorative Medal for Science Promotion. International Association of Academies of Sciences (2014).

Was awarded "the Heydar Aliyev Medal" for fruitful collaboration with Azerbaijani scientists (2014).

Honorary Doctor of Don State Technical University (2015)

Honorary citizen of Tbilisi (2016)

Honorary Doctor of David Agmashenebeli University of Georgia (2017)

Was awarded with medal of Moldova Academy of Sciences (2017)

Honorary Professor of the Kazakh national agrarian university the decision of the Academic Council (2017)

Was awarded with Qilu Friendship Award by People’s Government of Shandong Province, China (2017)

Honorary Professor of Shandong University of Technology China (2018)

Special Consultant for Datong Shuanghuang Industry Association