News
June 2026: My first-author paper, 4MOST ChANGES: Catalog of high-redshift quasar candidates (4.5 < z < 7) selected with SED fitting, was published in A&A (Mkrtchyan et al. 2026, A&A 710, A170)!
April 2026: My first English-language outreach post went live on Astrobites!
January 2026: Edgar Harutyunyan, another bachelor student from Leipzig University, joined our dark forces.
November 2025: Invited seminar/colloquium talks in the US — Caltech Tea Talk, UCLA Tuesday Talk, and a Gemini Observatory talk.
October 2025: My presentation in SOCHIAS XX Anual Meeting was announced as the best student’s talk among AGN and QSO topics.
August 2025: I have started co-supervising a bachelor student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Satenik Margaryan.
August 2025: I have submitted my first paper.
August 2025: My first high-redshift quasar discovery, yaay!
August 2024: Became a mother of a beautiful girl, Vaneh. An inspiring and truly amazing experience.
- April 2024: Passed my PhD qualifying exam! It was a significant milestone, and I’m very happy about it.
