Dr. Khatuna Gigauri is a guest lecturer at Ilia State University and an associate professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a Doctor of Life Sciences and an expert in highland ecology. She has been teaching the following two courses at the above-mentioned universities: Global Climate Change and Politics and Ecological Perspective of Global Climate Change.
From 2005 until now, she has been the coordinator of the international project – Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA-WORDWIDE) in Georgia, co-funded by the European Union. Since 2019, she has been a participant in the international project – SoilTemp-Towards a global database of microclimate.
Her areas of interest are highland ecology and the impact of climate change on alpine biodiversity. She is the author of more than 10 publications in the last decade.