Michael A Navakatikyan

Michael A. Navakatikyan received the M.Sc. degree in human and animal physiology from Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1974 and the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Academy of Science of the USSR, now Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, in 1981. He worked in the Ukrainian Scientific Hygienic Centre of Health Ministry, Ukraine as Senior Researcher and, since 1991, as Chief of Applied Physiology and Biochemistry Research Laboratory. He currently holds a Post-doctoral position in the Circulatory Control Laboratory of the Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. His scientific interests lie in the areas of circulatory control, behavioral effect of the electromagnetic fields, mathematical modeling of the psychological processes, and neural control of the kidney circulation.