Aida Papikyan

Researcher, project officer

Aida Papikyan joined the AUA Acopian Center for the Environment as a researcher in 2024. Aida majored in Cultural Studies at the Yerevan State University in 2019 and Sustainable Resource Management at the Technical University of Munich in 2023. She specializes in wildlife and forest ecosystems management, community-based conservation, and spatiotemporal data analysis for informed conservation. Aida’s academic interests include climate change adaptation and mitigation and landscape planning in environmental sciences, as well as social aspects of power dynamics in the modern army and police, and Stalin’s repressions in social sciences.

At the AUA Acopian Center, Aida is involved in projects aimed at scaling up citizen science at the European and national levels.

She is also a guest scientist at the Chair of Zoology at the Technical University of Munich conducting data analysis for wildlife conservation in African countries.

Email: apapikyan[at]aua.am