Since March 2018, Dr. Alexander Velumian from University of Toronto in Canada has been appointed a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physiology of Yerevan State Medical University.
Dr. Velumian is an Assistant Professor in Departments of Surgery and Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Toronto and a Staff Neuroscientist at the Division of Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital.
He graduated from Moscow State University, did his post-graduate studies and worked at the I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of Russian Academy of Science in St. Petersburg, receiving a PhD and then Doctor of Science degrees in physiology. He worked at the Sechenov Institute for nearly 20 years, growing through the ranks to a Leading Scientist position.
Dr. Velumian’s scientific expertise is in the area of physiology of nerve and glial cells and the mechanisms of signal transmission in central nervous system, using advanced cellular electrophysiology and imaging approaches.
For the last 10 years, he has been a co-Director of a joint graduate/undergraduate Fundamental Neuroscience Course (Cell & Molecular) at the Department of Physiology of University of Toronto.
Dr. Velumian is a member of major international neuroscience organizations such as the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) and the US-based Society for Neuroscience. He has been among the organizers of many international conferences, presented how work at international scientific meetings, gave invited talks in many countries and published numerous articles in prestigious neuroscience journals.