Zaza Skhirtladze - Curriculum Vitae#

• Ph. D. Arts (1987): Georgian Academy of Sciences, for "The Mural Painting of Bertubani Cave Church"
  
• Diploma Art History (1979): Tbilisi University, for "Kobair Monastery and its Wall Paintings"

• University of Cairo, Egypt (June-July, 2004)
  
• The British Academy, London, England; Visiting Professor (May-June, 2003)
  
• College de France, Paris, France (January-February, 1999)
  
• Athens University, Greece, Visiting Professor (May-June 1997)
  
• Dumbarton Oaks Research Laboratory and Collection, Washington DC, USA; IREX Fellow (August-November 1995)
  
• The British Academy, London, England; Visiting Professor (March-April 1994)

• Grant from Rustaveli National Science Foundation, the Project“Ani: The Georgian Heritage“ (2016-2018), Project Director
  
• Grant from Central European University, the Project “The Caucasus and Byzantium from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages – Development of Innovative Curricula” (2010-2014), Participant
  
• Grant from United States Embassy in Georgia, Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Project “Rescue Project for Tetri Udabno Frescoes Conservation” (2007-2008), Project Director
  
• Grant from International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), Organization of the International Conference – "The Desert Monasticism: Gareja and the Christian East" (2000), Project Director
  
• Grant from INTAS, the Project "Rescue Survey, Restoration and Analysis of Newly Discovered Early Christian Rock-Cut Monasteries in the Gareja Desert of Georgia" (1997-2000), Project Coordinator

• International Symposia on Georgian Art, Tbilisi, Georgia (1983, 1985, and 1989)
  
• XVI Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Baltimore, USA, (1990)
  
• XVIII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, UK (1994)
  
• XXIII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Warwick , UK (1999)
  
• XX International Congres of Byzantine Studies, Paris, France (2001)
  
• XXI International Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, UK (2006)
  
• IV International Studies of Cypriological Studies Nicosia, Cyprus (2008)
  
• LXIII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, UK (2009)
  
• International Colloquium „Book Production in Eleventh-Century Constantinople“, Oxford, UK (2001)
  
• XXII International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria (2011)
  
• International Conference „Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia“, Fribourg, Switzerland (2017)