Biography

Tamar Kacharava is a Doctor of Agricultural Sciences and has been a professor at Georgian Technical University since 2010. She represents the GTU Biotechnology Center on the Academic Council. Her research deals with the biology and agrotechnology of medicinal and aromatic plants, biodiversity and the conservation of plant genetic resources. She previously worked at the Institute of Tea and Subtropical Crops, the Institute of Farming and the Agrarian University.

Education

• Georgian Institute of Subtropical Agriculture – engineer-technologist, 1974
• Peoples’ Friendship University (Moscow) – postgraduate studies, 1978

Scientific degree and rank

• Candidate of Biological Sciences (1980)
• Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (2002)

Work experience

• 1978–1985 – Institute of Tea and Subtropical Crops, senior researcher
• 1985–1989 – Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, senior researcher, head of laboratory
• 1989–1993 – Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, head of centre
• 1993–2006 – Lomouri Institute of Farming, chief researcher
• 1996–2009 – Georgian State Agrarian University, professor
• Since 2010 – Georgian Technical University, professor

Publications

• კაჭარავა თ. კატაბალახას (Valeriana officinalis L.) პროდუქტიულობა აგრობიოლოგიურ თავისებურებათა გათვალისწინებით. 2000.
• კაჭარავა თ. კატაბალახას (Valeriana officinalis L.) კულტივირების ტექნოლოგიები. მონოგრაფია. 2003.
• Korakhashvili A., Kacharava T. Biological Diversity of Georgian Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Annals of Agrarian Science, 2005, 3(3), 141-145.