Senop Tschakarjan is a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Germany. After finishing his medical studies in Bavaria he moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where he trained at the University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Hospital of Zürich. During his time there he spent 10 months in the child and adolescent Forensic Department, where he worked with adolescents in detention as well as performing risk assessments of delinquent adolescents. During his field missions in various countries he was medical coordinator for a pilot methadone substitution program for heroin drug users in Kabul, Afghanistan, in which context he had a chance to get an inside into Herat detention facilities. In other missions he has been working in Sudan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories and Egypt. Currently he works as a mental health advisor at the ICRC, HQ.