Advanced Materials Research & Laser Technologies (AMRELAT) Laboratory
Zhandos Utegulov
Associate Professor of Physics
Principal Investigator
PhD, Oklahoma State University, USA
Azat Abdullayev
Leading Research Scientist
PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Nano- and micro-scale thermal transport in irradiated, phase-transformed and nanostructured solids. Picosecond time-domain thermoreflectance.
Tel: +7 747 272 3929
Email: azat.abdullayev@nu.edu.kz
Omid Farzadian
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PhD, Institute for Advanced Studies
in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
MD modeling of phonon thermal transport in nanocrystalline ceramics. Phonon hydrodynamics & thermal rectification
Tel: +7 708 715 7315
Email: omid.farzadian@nu.edu.kz
Kairolla Sekerbayev
Senior Research Scientist
PhD, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
MD modeling of radiation damage, phonon thermal transport in irradiated and interfacial solids.
Tel: +7 777 382 2382
Toreniyaz Shomenov
Research Scientist
PhD, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Computational atomistic material science. Elastic properties under irradiation
Tel: +7 778 374 9830
Email: toreniyaz.shomenov@nu.edu.kz
Bayan Kurbanova
PhD Student
MS, MEPHI, Moscow, Russia
BS, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Heat trasport in nanostructured materials. Opto-thermal Raman and Brillouin micro-spectroscopies.
Tel: +7 777 380 5861
Email: bayan.kurbanova@nu.edu.kz
Anna Shamatova
PhD Student
MS, MEPHI, Moscow, Russia
BS, MEPHI, Moscow, Russia
Frequency- & spatial- domain thermoreflectance of ion irradiated ceramics
Tel: +7 778 117 4832
Email: anna.shamatova@nu.edu.kz
Rustem Tlegenov
Junior Researcher
MS, MIPT, Moscow, Russia
BS, STUS, Saratov, Russia
Frequency- and spatial-domain thermoreflectance. Thermal mapping
Tel: +7 778 117 4832
Email: rustem.tlegenov@nu.edu.kz
Madina Dauylbayeva
PhD Student
MS, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2026
BS, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2024
Brillouin microscopy of elastic and photoelastic properties of irradiated solids
Tel: +7 708 727 3944
Email: madina.dauylbayeva@nu.edu.kz
Kirill Kisselyov
Junior Researcher
MS, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2026
BS, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, 2024
UV-Raman microscopy of wide-band gap semiconductors, TERS
Tel: +7 702 253 3384
Email: kirill.kisselyov@nu.edu.kz