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NU Experts

Reed Coil, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities , Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Associate Professor

Areas of focus

Paleolithic (Stone Age) Archaeology
Zooarchaeology
Paleoanthropology
Human Subsistence
Human Evolution

Alejandro Acuyo Cespedes, PhD

Center of Preparatory Studies, EAP Head of Discipline

Areas of focus

Teacher Training
Technology in Education
Qualitative Research
Artificial Intelligence
Assessment
Higher Education

Tursonjan Tokay, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities, Associate Professor

Areas of focus

Neuroanatomy
Neurophysiology
Neurosciences
Neurodegenerative diseases

Jessica Neafie, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities, Assistant Professor

Areas of focus

Kazakhstan Foreign Policy
Chinese Foreign Investment
Public Opinion of China
Central Asian International Relations
Chinese International Relations
Caspian Sea
Foreign Investment and Trade

Daniele Malafarina, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities, Associate Professor

Areas of focus

Gravity
Black Holes
Cosmology
General Relativity

Ayaulym Nurgozhina, PhD

National Laboratory Astana, Laboratory of Drug Discovery and Development , Senior Researcher

Areas of focus

Biomedicine
Biology
Nutrition
Molecular Biology
Drug Discovery
Pharmacology
Microbiology

Bimal Adhikari, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities , Assistant Professor

Areas of focus

Foreign policy
United Nations
Human rights
International organizations
Foreign aid
Energy politics

Rayner Roberto Rodriguez Guzman, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities , Associate Professor

Areas of focus

Nuclear Physics (Nuclear structure theory)
Сorrelated many-fermion systems

Dongming Wei, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities, Full Professor, Director of PhD Program in Mathematics

Areas of focus

Polymer Processing

Prashant Jamwal, PhD

School of Engineering and Digital Sciences , Associate Professor

Areas of focus

Medical Robotics
Rehabilitation Robots
Surgical Robots
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Intelligent control and Management of AC/DC Microgrids

Assem Zhakupova, PhD

School of Medicine , Postdoctoral Scholar

Areas of focus

Lipid metabolism
Neuropathy
Lipidomics
Lipid accumulation

Dmitry Sizov, PhD

School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Instructor

Areas of focus

Aerospace sciences
Satellites
Space debris
Very low earth orbits
Space debris removal
Classical mechanics

Helene Thibault, PhD

School of Sciences and Humanities, Associate professor, Department Chair

Areas of focus

Politics of Central Asia
Politics of Kazakhstan
Gender and religion
Counter-extremism

Dieter Riethmacher, PhD

School of Medicine, Full Professor, Vice Dean

Areas of focus

Cancer
Inflammation
Mouse Models
Neuroscience
Managing Research
Improving infrastructure for research

Daniele Tosi, PhD

School of Engineering and Digital Sciences , Professor, Head of Biosensors and Bioinstruments Laboratory, NLA

Areas of focus

Optics
Photonics
Sensors and biosensors
Detection of cancer biomarkers
Cancer treatments
Detection of biomarkers
Detection of viruses with sensors

Galymzhan Nauryzbayev, PhD

School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Associate Professor

Areas of focus

5G/6G Wireless Networks
Intelligent Metasurfaces for Future Communication Systems
Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Wireless Communications
Fluid Antenna Systems
Physical Layer Security (PLS)
mmWave/THz Communications
UAV-assisted Communications

Jiyang Dong, PhD

Graduate School of Business, Assistant Professor оf Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Areas of focus

Internationalization Strategy for Emerging Market Firms
Family Business Succession
Belt and Road Initiative