She earned her Ph.D. in Human Geography from TSU in 1998. Her teaching and research interests are in Transitional Georgia, Migration Studies and Tourism Geography. In 2015 as a Fulbright scholar at Rutgers University (USA) she carried out a scaled research on Georgian labor immigrants in the USA. As an Erasmus scholar she has given intensive courses in Tourism Geography of Georgia at University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2014) and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland (2016 and 2017).