Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Nazarbayev University
Group Leader
Sandugash Kalybekkyzy joined Nazarbayev University as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Chemistry in 2023. Her research interests include polymer chemistry, nanomaterial synthesis and application, polymer electrolytes for energy storage devices, functional membranes for various applications
Postdoctoral Researcher
She received her PhD from the Science, Technology, and Engineering Programme at Nazarbayev University in 2025. Her research interests include the assessment of aerosols and human exposure to airborne pollutants in indoor and outdoor environments, with a focus on fine and ultrafine particles and their impacts on the cardiopulmonary and neurological systems
Research Assistant
She received her MSc degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. She has extensive research experience through participation in various scientific projects. Her research interests include electrochemistry, polymer electrolytes, and making nanofiber membranes with the electrospinning technique. She focuses on the synthesis of functional polymers for applications in gas sensing and biological systems
Research Assistant
Maxim received his MSc degree in Physical Chemistry from Eurasian National University. His research focuses on the development of composite materials for gas sensors. He has experience working with computational chemistry tools (Gaussian), designing catalytic systems from recycled catalytic waste and fabricating gas sensors based on conductive polymers and carbon materials
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
MSc Student in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
His research interests are carbon nanofibers which surface modified/coated with Silica and metal oxide semiconductors (MOS). He is experienced in working with electrospinning for production nanoscaled fibers, sol-gel techniques for pure ZnO, self user of XRD, FT-IR, RAMAN, SEM, OriginPro
B.Sc. Student in Biological Sciences
Her research focuses on the development of a biocompatible PVA-based composite membranes for seed protection application. She has experience in nanomaterial synthesis and characterisation
B.Sc. Student in Chemistry
Her research focuses on the fabrication of electrospun PCL-based nanofibrous membranes tailored for diverse applications. She has experience in electrospinning techniques, polymer processing, and the characterization of nanostructured materials
Research Assistant
She received her MSc degree in Chemical Technology from Eurasian National University. She has experience on synthesis of analgesics drugs, polymer synthesis. Her research focused on composite polymer films for energy storage applications and membrane fabrication for air filtration