Date of birth: 1932
Place of birth: Tbilisi, Georgia
Nationality: Georgian
Languages: Fluent in German, French, Russian, Georgian

Specialization: Botany, plant ecology, geobotany

Current research interests: Global climate change (National Program of Georgia), Bioecology and geobotany of high-mountain vegetation

Present position: Director of the N.Ketskhoveli Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences

Education:
(1951-1956) - Tbilisi State University, Georgia, Master of Sciences in Biology, graduated with honor
(1956-1959) - Postgraduate School at Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia

Scientific degrees:
1961 - Candidate of Sciences (botany)
1962 - Doctor of Sciences (botany)
1963 - Or. Professor of Botany
1964 - Corresponding Member of Georgian Academy of Sciences
1965 - Corresponding Member of Austrian Academy of Sciences

Employment:
(1956-1966) - Junior Researcher in the Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
(1966-1973) - Senior Researcher in the Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
1973 - Head of the Department of Plant Ecology in the Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
1974 - Docent, Tbilisi State University
1975 - Professor, Tbilisi State University
1976 - Director of the Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences

Membership of the professional Societies:
-President of Georgian Botanical Society
-Member of Editorial Council of "Botanicheski Jurnal" (St. Petersburg, Russia)
-Chairman of the Symposium on the high-mountain vegetation in the XII International Botanical Congress, Leningrad, July 1975
-Chairman of the Symposium on Comparative ecology of the high-mountain and arctic areas in XIV International Botanical Congress, Berlin, 24 July – 1 August 1987.

Honors:
International Science Foundation Research Grant RVK000, (1994-1996),
National Geographical Society Grant 5866-97,
Tbilisi State University Prize 1994,
European Commission Grant, Contract No ERBIO15CT970100

Address:

Kodjori Road #1,
0105, Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel:  +995 (32) 99 77 46
Fax: +995 (32) 98 82 76
E-mail: botanins@yahoo.com

List of the principal publications:

1. Nachuzrischvili G. et al. Zur Frage der Uberlebensstrategien von pflanzen in der subnivalen Stufe des Kaukasus. Giornale Botanico Italiano, vol. 124, Firenze, 1990. 6: 781-791
2. Ecological analysis of human impact on high mountain meadows of the Caucasus. Ecology, 1990, 3: 3-7, (in Russian)
3. With N.Zazanashvili, R.Gagnidze 1995. High-mountain vegetation on the new vegetation map of Georgia. J. Vet. Sci. 6: 157-158.
4. The vegetation of Georgia (Caucasus). Braun-Blanquetia (in press) 1996.
5. Ecology of high-mountain grass plants and phytoceonoses of the Central Caucasus (Water regime). 1971. 200 pp. "Metsniereba", Tbilisi. (Rus. Sum. Germ.)
6. Ecology of high-mountain plants and phytoceonoses of the Central Caucasus (Rhythm of development, photosynthesis. Life forms).- 1974. 193 pp., "Metsniereba", Tbilisi. (Rus.)
7. With Z. Gamtsemlidze, Plant life in subnival vegetation) in the extremal conditions of high mountains.-1984, 123pp., "Nauka" Moscow-Leningrad. (Rus).
8. With S.Gribova, A.Dolukhanov, R.Neuhausl. The high mountain vegetation on geobotanical map of the CEC-member European countries. In "The Ecology Of High Mountains", 1988, 131-138.
9. Pflanzenleben in der subnivalen Stufe des Kaukasus in: Colloques Phytosociologiques XXIV Fetodinamica Camerino 1995, Göttingen, 1996, 373-385.