Dean of GTU Faculty of Civil Engineering, Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate professor
Date of birth: 18/11/1963
E-mail: z.gvishiani@gtu.ge
Marital status:married (a spouse and a son)
Education
1980-1985 – the faculty of hydrotechnic and sewerage of V.I. Lenin Georgian Polytechnical institute;
Academic Degree and Status
Since 1994 – the Candidate of Technical Sciences;
Since 1998 – Docent at Georgian Agrarian University;
Since 2019 – Corresponding Member of Georgian Engineering Academy.
Record of Service
Since 2020 – Acting Dean of the Civil Engineering faculty at GTU;
2015 – up to the present – Associate professor of Georgian Technical University;
2011-2012 – Georgian United water supply company, chief of investigation division;
2004-2015 – The Rector of the Georgian – British University of international law and Management (Ltd.)
2004-2004 , Deputy-head of regional relations in the Department of agriculture development of the Ministry of Agtriculture and Food
2001-2004 – The deputy-head of innovation in the consulting division of the Agriculture production service department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
2000-2001 – The deputy-head of Agro-engineering Service and Mechanization Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food
1998-2000 – The deputy-head Water Management Division of Scientific Procurement and Nature Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
1997-1998 – The senior research associate at the laboratory of natural catastrophe survey of the Georgian Scientific-Research Institute of Hydrotechinc Engineering and Amelioration.
1991-1997 – Junior researcher at the laboratory of amelioration of mountainous areas of the Georgian Scientific-Research Institute of Hydrotechinc Engineering and Amelioration.
1988-1990 – Post-graduate student of the Georgian Scientific-Research Institute of Hydrotechinc Engineering and Amelioration.
1987-1988 – Senior engineer of the Georgian Scientific-Research Institute of Hydrotechinc Engineering and Amelioration.
1985-1987 – Engineer at the USSR Water Management and Amelioration project-design institute
1985-1985 – Master of the Construction committee of the construction trust of the Georgian State Winery.
Supervision of Doctoral and Master’s Theses (qualifying), Consulting and Opposition
Supervisor of 3 master’s and 1 doctoral theses;
Opponent to 2 doctoral theses.
Participation in the International, State and Regional Programs
Since 1999 – FAO and World Bank, Georgia – the project of irrigation and drainage rehabilitation;
Since 2018 – ERASMUS +;
Since 2019 – ERASMUS +;
Since 2019 up to the present – the coordinator of Bialystok University of Technology (Poland) project, (grant) N PP/APM/2018/1/00033/U/001 on Georgian part (Georgian Technical University).
Experiece of working in editorial boards
Since 2019 – the Chairman of the educational – scientific literature industry-wide committee 2 of GTU Faculty of Civil Engineering;
An international monograph – “The ecology of the environment” vol.1 (the member of the organizational and scientific committee
Improvement of Qualification (trainings, workshops and etc.)
1999 – the Ministry of Agriculture of Greece, the environmental impact on the agrarian field;
1998 – Israel, the service of scientific achievements implementation into agriculture – modern irrigative systems;
1989-1990 – Moscow M. Lomonosov State University, the department of soil physics – Improvement of Qualification
