More than 30 years' experience in working with an international organization (E.U., U.N., OSCE, UNICEF, UNDP, NATO) and NGOs in service as a senior researcher and in working in a global context (EUROSTAT, U.N., Criminal Justice Sourcebook Team, E.U. Society of Criminology and local professionals (Parliament of Georgia, Ministry of Justice) and others;

He was as vice-chairperson of the Academy of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia's criminal law department. Colonel of Police (reserve)

Since 2018 he is an affiliated professor at the European University and Senior scientific researcher at the scientific-research institute of the European university

In 2018 – 2019 he was an expert at the Legal Issues Committee of Parliament of Georgia and involved to the law-making activities related to combating and prevention of crime and made an essential contribution to Institutional capacity building affords of the mentioned Committee

Since 2019 he is an Expert and member of the working group of Main Prosecutor's Office of Georgia Project Prosecution Criminal Justice Support Project EU4Justice: Support to Justice Reform. He is involved in the preparation of the Georgian version of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) UNODC and the development of recommendations on using statistical analysis to improve the collection, analysis, and reporting of crime-related data within the Law enforcement agencies

From 2020 he was appointed as the team leader in the E.U. project "Support to the Security Sector Reform program preparation in Georgia – E.C. Reference. Together with an international team, he carried out Georgia Crime and Victimization Survey 2020

He received:

• The grant from USAID "Good Governance and Public Administration Strengthening (GGPAS) Prepared Recommendations on using statistical analysis to improve the collection, analysis, and reporting of crime-related data within the Ministry of Internal Affairs 2015
• The grant from USAID "Good Governance and Public Administration Strengthening (GGPAS) "Kyrgyzstan Crime Victimization Survey" 2015
• The grant from European Commission "Victimization Survey in Georgia 2012" – Legal expert 2010- 2012
• The grant from Shota Restively Foundation. Sociological and Legal Characteristic of Corruption in Georgia 01.01.2009-30.12.2010 – Director
• The grant from Erasmus Mundus Program – Violation of human rights: domestic violence in Georgia 10.05.2009-10.08.2009
• S. Embassy Grant- Introduction of the new curriculum on the struggle against Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia 01.01.2007-01.12.2007
• The grant from Ministry of Education of Georgia (GNSF) – Preparation of textbook "Criminology" author and director of the project, 01.01.2006 -01.06.2007°2019/411469 Together with an international team, he led the International Crime Victims Survey in Georgia

He was visiting professor:

• Max-Planck Institute for International and Foreign Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, DAAD program (11 times from 1999-2020)
• The University of Hull, Hull upon Kingston. U.K. Visiting scholar Erasmus Mundus GEMMA Program, (2009-2009)
• Monash University Prato, Italy (10/05/2008-10/07/2008)
• American University, Washington, D.C. USA Fulbright Program (1999 – 2000).
• Rutgers University. The School of Criminal Justice, Newark, N.J., USA IREX program, (1994 – 1995)

He published more than 70 scientific papers and nine textbooks and monographs