Shushan Azatyan has been an AIISA Senior Associate Expert for the AIISA's 'Foreign Policy, Peacebuilding, and Security' programsince 2025. She is an Iranologist and the author of several scientific articles published in local and international periodicals.

She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in General Linguistics from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran in 2021, defending her dissertation titled 'Critical Analysis of the Discourse of the Armenian Velvet Revolution in Armenian, Iranian, and Russian Press.'

Earlier, she completed her Bachelor's (2009–2013) and Master's (2013–2015) degrees in Iranian Studies at Yerevan State University.

Shushan Azatyan has undertaken professional internships at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Armenia, and has also engaged in translation activities at a number of private companies.