Garik Israelian

Garik Israelian is an Armenian-Spanish Astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational evidence that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of black holes. He works for Institute of Astrophyisics of Canary islands and European Northern Observatory. He is the leader of the team Observational Tests of the Processes of Nucleosynthesis in the Universe. Garik Israelian was born in Armenia. In 1993, Israelian obtained his PhD from Byurakan Observatory operated by Armenian Academy of Sciences. Later, he lectured a PhD course on Stellar Atmospheres and Radiative Transfer at Geneva University in 2001.