Doctor of Arts. Since 2005, she has been a Senior Researcher at the Giorgi Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation. The scientific degree was awarded to her in 2004 for her work on “The Representation of the Holy Face in the Christian East and West on the example of the icon of Mandylion and St. Veronica. Her field of work focuses on medieval Georgian fine art.

From September 1, 2023, she is on a traineeship at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) with funding from the Swiss Science Foundation and under the supervision of Prof. Michele Bacci.

She is a manager and organizer of a number of international projects, such as

• International summer school dedicated to the medieval art of Svaneti "The Interaction of Objects, Images, and Bodies with Built and Natural Spaces in Medieval Svaneti" (Project leaders and participants included University of Freiburg and University of Brno) (September 1 - September 16, 2022)
• A joint project of the Chubinashvili Center, the Max Planck Institute of Florence and the University of Freiburg "Summer School  Tao-Klarjeti: History and Heritage of Movable and Immovable monuments" (co-leader of the project Irene Giviashvili) (7-16 September 2019)

Along with scientific publications in the Georgian language, she is the author of a number of foreign-language scientific publications and is a two-time laureate of the Friends of Academic Research in Georgia (FaRiG) grant.