Head of the Department – Ani Robertovna Vardanyan

Born 14.05.19 86 .​

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From 1993 to 2003, he studied at Secondary School No. 1 named after Khachatur Abovyan in the city of Sevan.

From 2003 to 2007, he studied
at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology, Yerevan State University, receiving a qualification as a psychologist.

From 2007 to 2009, he continued his education at Yerevan State University, Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology, Department of Theory and History of Psychology, with a specialization in “Theory of Psychology and Personality Psychology”, receiving a Master’s degree.

Since 2018, he has been a candidate at the Department of Psychology of the International Scientific and Educational Center of the NAS of the Republic of Armenia.

Work activity 

From 2009 to 2010, he worked as a psychologist at the Anania Shirakatsi Seminary in Yerevan.

From 2010 to 2021, he was an employee of the Psychological Expertise Department of the National Bureau of Forensics SNCO of the RA NAS, from 2015 as the head of the department, and from 2015 to 2021 also a psychologist at the Criminology Research Center of the same organization.

In 2014, he founded “Ugekits Psychological Center” LLC.

From 2017 to 2019, he was a member of the Scientific Council, a collegial advisory body coordinating the scientific and scientific-technical activities of the National Bureau of Expertise SNCO of the RA NAS.

From 2019 to 2020, he worked at the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia as an expert /functions within the framework of personnel assessment and development work/.

Since 2017, he has been involved as an expert in a number of projects aimed at reforms in the justice sector.

From 2018 to 2019, he worked as a lecturer at the RA Police Academy,

Since 2015, he has been working as a lecturer at the Academy of Justice of the Republic of Armenia.

Starting in 2022, at the RA Bar Academy.

Types and subtypes of examinations performed

Type: Psychological
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1. Examination of minors,

2. Expertise on crimes related to violence (including those against sexual integrity and sexual freedom),

3. Examination of emotional states, including severe mental suffering,

4. Expertise on individual psychological and socio-psychological characteristics

5. Psychological impact assessment,

6. Postmortem and suicide attempt examination,

7. Other psychological tests (including psychophysiological ones).

Directions of expert research of the Forensic Psychological Examinations Department

Research objects:

  • The mental activity of the subject of legal relations (accused, suspect, victim, witness, plaintiff, defendant) in situations of legal significance,
  • social interaction and interpersonal (intragroup and intergroup) processes,
  • Sources of information on crime situations, as well as other events important for justice: any material, including case materials (record of the scene of the crime, records of the interrogation of the accused, witness, victim, suspect, medical certificates on sobriety, etc.), in which the data contained have psychological content or can be subjected to psychological analysis.

Research objectives:

  • to identify the level of ability of juvenile defendants to understand the significance of their own actions and to manage them, and their ability to communicate information about them,
  • to reveal the ability of a mentally healthy victim to understand the nature and meaning of the actions committed against him/her and to show resistance,
  • to reveal the presence or absence of physiological or cumulative affect, as well as other emotional states, in the accused at the time of committing the unlawful act, which could have significantly affected his consciousness and behavior in the situation under investigation, as well as the presence or absence of severe mental suffering as a result of the actions of a specific person or persons.
  • to identify such individual psychological characteristics of a person that could significantly affect his behavior and mental activity in a situation of legal significance,
  • to identify psychological characteristics that are of significant importance in ensuring the best interests of the child and in preventing it,
  • to reveal the ability of a person to understand and manage the significance of their own actions at the time of making a transaction,
  • to identify the person’s mental state in the period preceding the suicide /suicide attempt/, as well as the presence or absence of a causal connection between his/her mental state and the actions of other persons /suspect, accused/,
  • to identify the presence or absence of psychological influence on a person in a situation of legal significance,
  • to identify a person’s mental state during transport or industrial accidents and its impact on the ability to manage activities,
  • to identify psychophysiological characteristics of behavior that are important circumstances for a criminal or civil case.