Arevik Minasyan has over eighteen years of experience in national and international projects on the topic of Aquatic Microbiology. She was awarded fellowships to perform scientific projects in the international laboratories from INTAS, DAAD, OEAD, SNSF foundations. In 2009 her application was awarded OKF First Prize. Recently, she became a member of CYANOCOST Action ES1105 from Armenia. In 2016-2017 Minasyan was awarded Fulbright Fellowship. She`s an author of three patents, two out of them concerns the creation of “bio-filters” and technology to clean water of aquacultures and fishponds.

Her area of specialization includes topics on water-quality related (via microbiological parameters such as bacteria, fungi, yeast, as well as phytoplankton with special focus on cyanobacteria) and ecosystem services in the lakes and rivers and the means to remediate and to mitigate the negative effect of the main pollutants to influence the entire ecosystem structure and functioning.