Employees

Kenessov Bulat Nurlanovich

Chief Researcher, PhD in Chemistry, Professor

Kenessov B.N. conducts research in the field of analytical chemistry and ecology, developing new methods, materials, and equipment for chromatographic analysis of environmental objects, food products, petroleum products, and others. From 2017 to 2020 and from 2020 to 2024, he was the director of the Center for Physico-Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis. Since 2010, he has been a member of the American Chemical Society. Currently, he has more than 100 publications, including over 40 articles and reviews in international journals from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database of Web of Science, more than 20 of which are in journals from the first quartile by impact factor. He is also the director of the Analytical Center for Scientific and Scientific-Technical Development of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
h-index - 22 (Web of Science) and 24 (Scopus).

Alimzhanova Mereke Baurzhanovna

Head of Laboratory, PhD in Chemistry, PhD, Associate Professor

Alimzhanova M.B. is an expert in analytical chemistry and a promising young scientist. In 2010, she defended her candidate dissertation, and in 2012, her PhD dissertation. She completed a two-month internship at Iowa State University, USA. In 2007, she was awarded the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Prize. She has 20 articles and reviews in international journals from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database of Web of Science. From 2018 to 2020, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Al-Farabi KazNU. In 2021, she received the academic title of associate professor. In 2020, she was acting director of the Center for Physico-Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis. She holds the title "Best University Teacher - 2021". h-index (Scopus) - 10.

Orazbayeva Dina Sailaubekkyzy

Lead Researcher, PhD

Orazbayeva D.S. is engaged in the development of methods for determining organic pollutants in environmental objects based on solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection. She has 5 articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor; h-index - 4. In 2017, she interned at Iowa State University (USA). In 2018, she successfully defended her dissertation on the topic "Development of 'green' methods for determining organic toxicants in soils using solid-phase microextraction." Since February 2019, she has been heading the laboratory. From 2019 to 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher at al-Farabi KazNU. She was the project leader of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan for young scientists.

Batyrbekova Svetlana Esimbekovna

Chief Researcher, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor

Batyrbekova S.E. - a scientist with extensive experience in the field of ecology and electrochemical production technology. Over the past 15 years, Batyrbekova S.E. has worked in the field of rocket and space activity ecology, leading or serving as the responsible executor of three projects of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC). She has more than 100 scientific publications, including 9 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. h-index (Web of Science) - 5.

Bukenov Bauyrzhan Omirbekovich

Researcher, PhD

Bukenov Bauyrzhan Omirbekovich is engaged in the development of new green, cost-effective, and accurate methods for determining transformation products of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and other organic compounds in atmospheric air using modern sampling/sample preparation methods such as solid-phase microextraction, thermal desorption, absorption, and detection by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (high-resolution mass spectrometry). In 2018, he interned as part of his master's thesis work at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (SAFU) using a gas chromatograph with a high-resolution tandem mass spectrometric detector (Orbitrap) and a thermal desorber. In 2025, Bukenov B.O. was awarded a PhD degree. He has 11 publications in international peer-reviewed journals with impact factors, such as Science of the Total Environment, Microchemical Journal, Chromatographia, Journal of Separation Science, Atmosphere, and Analytica Chimica Acta, of which 3 are as the first author. h-index (Scopus) - 4.

Bakaikina Nadezhda Viktorovna

Researcher, PhD

Bakaikina N.V. is engaged in the development of methods for the identification and determination of transformation products of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and other organic compounds in soil samples using solid-phase microextraction combined with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. She has completed internships twice at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk, Russia). In 2025, Bakaikina N.V. was awarded a PhD degree. She has 8 articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor: Talanta (2), Chromatographia (2), Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Microchemical Journal, and Chemosphere, of which 2 as the first author. h-index (Scopus) - 7.

Kurmanbayeva Tolkyn

Junior Researcher, PhD Student

Tolkyn is conducting research for her doctoral dissertation on the development of gas chromatographic methods for determining volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in environmental objects on-site using solid-phase microextraction. She interned at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Gardanne, France), Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland), and Gdansk University of Technology (Gdańsk, Poland). She participated in the development of a website about science and scientific analytics (scientometrics.cfhma.kz). She has 4 articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor: Advances in Sample Preparation, International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Microchemical Journal, and Journal of Separation Science, of which 3 as the first author. h-index (Scopus) - 3.

Mamedova Madina

Junior Researcher, PhD Student

Since 2019, she has been a doctoral student at Al-Farabi KazNU in the educational program "Standardization and Certification", and also works part-time as a junior researcher at the "Ecology of the Biosphere" laboratory. In 2018, she studied under the academic mobility program at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Finland). In 2019, she completed training under the Erasmus+ program at Valladolid University (Spain) in the specialty "Environmental Engineering". Since the beginning of her scientific career, Mamedova M. R. has published 10 scientific works, including 2 articles in international scientific journals. There are publications in international conferences

Syrgabek Yerkanat

Junior Researcher, PhD

Syrgabek Yerkanat is working on a doctoral dissertation on the development of a method for determining pesticides in grapes based on solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection. He participates in the implementation of grant projects of the "Ecology of the Biosphere" laboratory, under the supervision of Assoc. Professor Alimzhanova M.B. Along with practical knowledge in gas chromatography (Agilent), he additionally has skills in working with instruments such as an atomic absorption spectrometer (Agilent), an atomic emission spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, iCAP; Agilent ISP-ECO), and in 2019 Yerkanat completed a scientific internship at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology, Department of Applied and Engineering Chemistry (Serbia). In 2025, Syrgabek E. was awarded a PhD degree. He has 5 articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor, 4 of which as the first author. h-index (Scopus) - 2.

Karimkyzy Nurbi

Laboratory Assistant, Doctoral Student

Nurbi is conducting research for his dissertation on the identification of new volatile organic pollutants in environmental objects of Almaty as part of the project AP23484339. He has 2 articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor Advances in Sample Preparation and Journal of Separation Science.

Dyusenkulova Balgin

Laboratory Technician

Dyusenkulova Balgin participated in the development of "green" methods for determining nitrogen-containing pesticides in environmental objects using solid-phase microextraction. The thesis is dedicated to the application of the cold-fiber solid-phase microextraction method for the analysis of pesticides in soil samples. In 2023, she completed advanced training courses as part of the IUPAC Activity for Connecting the Chemists, and also participated in the international conference Carbon Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications.