Bakhtiyar Aliyev (Əliyev Bəxtiyar Həmzə oğlu (Az); March 20, 1961, Agdam) — correspondent member of AMEA (2007), professor, doctor of psychological sciences, deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan, chairman of the Science and Education Committee of the National Assembly.

After graduating from this faculty in 1983, he started working at the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of the Azerbaijan State University (now BSU).

In 1989, he defended his candidate thesis in the field of philosophy on "Interethnic communication as an object of socio-psychological analysis", and in 1998 he defended his doctoral thesis in the field of psychology on "Problems of Forensic-Psychological Examination in Criminal and Criminal Law".

Based on this theory, for the first time, a new methodology for determining the physiological effect and defined a classification system of psychological criteria as well as types of forensic psychological expertise.The results obtained are used in legal practice to personalize and objectively investigate punishment.

He established the principles of organization and conduct of forensic examination of “physiological effect”, which is of necessary importance, and the scientific-legal foundations of evaluating the opinion of an expert-psychologist as a type of evidence.

He is the author of numerous articles devoted to current issues of political psychology at the international level.

He has been the deputy chairman of the "Science and Education Committee" of the National Assembly of the Republic of Azerbaijan since 2005.