Nino Kochakidze

In 1973, Nino Kochakidze graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Biology.
In 2006, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences.
Throughout various years, she has completed professional development courses and trainings.

From 1975 to 1977, she worked as a chemistry and biology teacher at Tbilisi Second Medical College.
From 1977 to 1980, she was a senior laboratory assistant at the Medical Genetics Department of the Children’s Republican Hospital.
From 1980 to 1983, she worked as a medical geneticist at the same hospital.
From 1983 to 1984, she served as an inspector in the Scientific Division of the Georgian State Institute of Physical Culture.
From 1984 to 2006, she worked at the Department of Human Anatomy and Sports Morphology at the Georgian State Academy of Physical Education and Sport, serving as Head of the Programmed Learning Laboratory, Senior Teacher, Assistant Professor, and later Associate Professor.
From 2007 to 2008, she worked at Ilia State University, Faculty of Life Sciences, as an Assistant Professor.
Since 2007, she has been a lecturer at Tbilisi State Medical University’s Department of Functional Morphology.
Since 2013, she has been working at the State Teaching University of Physical Education and Sport of Georgia as a Professor.
Since 2018, she has been Head of the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, Biology, and Biochemistry.

She was a reviewer for the dissertation thesis “Peculiarities of Physical and Functional Development of Children and Adolescents in the Kakheti Region.”
She is the author and coordinator of the TSMU Master’s program “Physical Rehabilitation and Adaptation of Individuals with Constitutional Aberrations.”
In 2006, she was a member of the Representative Council of the Faculty of Therapeutic Physical Training and Rehabilitation at the Georgian State Academy of Physical Education and Sport.
From 2014 to 2019, she was a member of the Academic Council of the State Teaching University of Physical Education and Sport of Georgia.
Since 2024, she is again a member of the Academic Council of the same university.
She is the author of 55 publications, 2 monographs, and 7 textbooks.
She has participated in numerous conferences, seminars, and symposiums.
Her primary scientific focus has been the rehabilitation of individuals with aberrant genomes using physical training combined with drug therapy — a pioneering and successful project in Georgia.
Her subsequent research has been dedicated entirely to sports, and over the last 10 years, she has been actively working with colleagues on early selection issues across different sports disciplines.
Her scientific work is indexed in international electronic academic databases.
Alongside her academic work, she is actively involved in university activities.
She supervises several PhD theses.
She is also the author of several textbooks in the field of sports morphology.