Hikmet Guliyev was elected as the Director of the Institute of Folklore of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) in 2025.
In 2015, he successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “The Wise Old Man Archetype in Azerbaijani Folklore.”
In 2018, he earned the title of Associate Professor in the field of folklore studies.
In 2024, he successfully defended his Doctor of Science dissertation in Philology titled “Internet Folklore: Theoretical-Methodological Context and Folkloric Meaning-Making.”
He is the author of six books and around 60 scholarly articles published both domestically and internationally, and he has participated in numerous national and international conferences. Four of his articles have been published in journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.