Prof. Dr. Ketevan Batsatsashvili
Phone: (995 32) 223-08-57; Mob.: (995 599) 111-423
ketevan_batsatsashvili@iliauni.edu.ge
EDUCATION
2000-2005 Candidate of Biology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
1997-1999 Master of Biology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
1993-1997 Bachelor of Biology; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
RESEATRCH FOCUS
Plant and lichen diversity
Ecology,
Population monitoring,
Extinction risk assessment (Red Listing)
Ethnobiology of the Caucasus
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-present Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013-present Assistant Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences , Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
2004-2012 Researcher; Institute of Botany of Ilia State University (formerly Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences)
2001-2005 Researcher, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Faculty of Biology
Membership of Professional Societies / Other Activities
2007-present Caucasus Plant Red List Authority, IUCN Species Survival Commission
Languages
Georgian (native); English; Russian; Spanish (basic)
PUBLICATIONS (2016-2021)
Books / Book Chapters
Bussmann, R.W., Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Khutsishvili, M., Maisaia, I., Sikharulidze, Sh.,Tchelidze, D. et al. 2020. Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Far Eastern Europe. Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z. Bussmann, R.W. (eds.). Springer. 1063p.
Bussmann, R.W., Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z. et al. 2020. Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai. Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z. Bussmann, R.W. (eds.). Springer. 881p.
Bussmann, R.W., Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z., Khutsishvili, M., Maisaia, I., Sikharulidze, Sh.,Tchelidze, D., Fayvush, G., Alexanyan, A., Mehdiyeva, N.P., Alizade, V.M., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y. 2017. Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. Bussmann, R.W. (ed.). Springer. 708p.
Nakhutsrishvili, G., Batsatsashvili, K. 2017. Quantitative analysis of the phytosociological relevés from the Central Greater Caucasus. In: Nakhutsrishvili, G., Abdaladze O., Batsatsashvili K., Körner Ch., Spehn E. (eds.) Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment. Springer, pp. 113-132.
Nakhutsrishvili, G., Batsatsashvili, K., Rudmann-Maurer, K., Körner, Ch., Spehn, E. 2017. New Indicator values for Central Caucasus flora. In: Nakhutsrishvili, G. Abdaladze O., Batsatsashvili K., Körner Ch., Spehn E. (eds.) Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment, Springer, pp. 145-160.
Papers in scientific journals
Inashvili, Ts., Kupradze, I., Batsatsashvili, K. A revised catalogue of lichens of Georgia (the South Caucasus). Acta Mycologica (in press).
Murtazaliev, R., Anatov, Dzh., Ekhvaia, J., Guseinova, Z., Batsatsashvili, K. 2020. Intraspecific variability of some functional traits of Trigonocaryum involucratum (Steven) Medw., a Caucasus endemic plant. Botanica Serbica 44 (2): 129-136.
Zenderland, J., Hart, R., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K. 2019. The Use of "Use Value": Quantifying Importance in Ethnobotany. Economic Botany 73(3), 293-303.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze Sh., Kikvidze Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E. 2018. Unequal brothers–Plant and fungal use in Guria and Racha, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 17(1): 7-33.
Kupradze, I., Inashvili. Tz., Batsatsashvili, K., Lachashvili, N., Gabelashvili, S. 2018. Lichens of the arid region of David Gareji, Georgia (South Caucasus). Herzogia (in press).
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E. 2017. Ethnobotany of Samtskhe-Javakheti, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 16 (1):7-24.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E. 2017. Plants in the spa – the medicinal plant market of Borjomi, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 16(1): 25-34.
Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E., 2017. Plant and fungal use in Tusheti, Khevsureti, and Pshavi, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 86(2):45.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E., 2016. A comparative ethnobotany of Khevsureti, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Tusheti, Svaneti, and Racha-Lechkhumi, Republic of Georgia (Sakartvelo), Caucasus. Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine 12(1): 43.
Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2016. Medicinal and food plants of Svaneti and Lechkhumi, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Med Aromat Plants 2016, 5(266): 2167-0412.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E. and Pieroni, A., 2016. Your Poison in My Pie—the Use of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Leaves in Sakartvelo, Republic of Georgia, Caucasus, and Gollobordo, Eastern Albania. Economic Botany 70(4), pp.431-437.
Research Grants
Cryptogams of Semi-arid Habitats of Georgia: Diversity, Conservation, Potential for Desertification Monitoring (NFR-18-14169). 2019-2022. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation / Ilia State University._ Principal Investigator
Ethnobiology of Georgia’s Fungi and Lichens (FR/631/7-120/13). 2014-2017. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation / Ilia State University._ Principal Investigator