Professor Ani Aprahamian was appointed Director of A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (formerly known as Yerevan Physics Institute) in April 2018. She is the first woman and the first diasporan Armenian to hold this important position. Ani is also the Friemann Professor of Nuclear Physics at the University of Notre Dame, an outstanding researcher in her field and diaspora-born Armenian woman whose grandmother was a Genocide survivor. She visited MIT and shared the work she does to advance science in Armenia.
You can learn more about Ani and her vision in her interview to Mediamax.