Lusine Hambaryan is a Senior Researcher and Associate Professor, and obtained a PhD in Botany (algology), from NAS RA Institute of Botany, in 2001. Areas of activity include the quantitative and qualitative dynamics of the phytoplankton community of aquatic and stagnant aquatic ecosystems, cyanobacterial blooms and habitat toxicity, the study of algal bioindicators of water quality, the impact of microplastic pollution and ecotoxicity on the autotrophic chain of aquatic ecosystems. Since 1997, Lusine Hambaryan has been a member of, and since 2014, the Head of the Union of Armenian Ecologists, an NGO.