End of Affiliation of Professor Alexander Sharmazanashvili with GTU

Professor Alexander Sharmazanashvili, Founder, Director, and Scientific Leader of the Nuclear Engineering Centre (NEC), has decided not to continue his affiliation with Georgian Technical University (GTU). Consequently, his duties as Head of NEC, GTU representative in the CERN/ATLAS and CERN/SHiP collaborations, and leader of the Master’s program “Information Technologies in Nuclear Engineering” have come to an end.

Under his leadership, NEC was established in 2010 as the successor to the CATIA Center at the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Over the years, Professor Sharmazanashvili has achieved remarkable success in advancing NEC’s international scientific presence. He secured nine collaboration agreements with ATLAS, one with CERN/IPPOG, and a five-year scientific-research agreement with ATLAS in 2021, which ensured GTU’s membership in the ATLAS collaboration. In total, 24 work packages were successfully completed under his direction.

Professor Sharmazanashvili also served as the scientific advisor for three PhD and five Master’s dissertations. He organized several major international events, including four South Caucasus Software Computing Workshops (in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016) in cooperation with CERN scientists, the CERN Cognitive Festival (2018), and the PMBC 2021 and PMBC 2023 scientific workshops. Since 2016, he has been the principal organizer of the annual CERN International Masterclasses in Georgia.

Professor Sharmazanashvili has now joined the Business and Technology University (BTU) in Tbilisi, where he plans to establish a new scientific center as the successor to NEC and continue his pioneering research in XR and AI development for Metaverse applications.