
Advanced Materials Research & Laser Technologies (AMRELAT) Laboratory

Zhandos Utegulov
Associate Professor of Physics
Principal Investigator
PhD, Oklahoma State University,
USA, 2003

Azat Abdullayev
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2015
Nano- and micro-scale thermal transport in irradiated and nanostructured solids. Picosecond time-domain thermoreflectance. Optical spectroscopy.
Tel: +7 747 272 3929
Email: azat.abdullayev@nu.edu.kz

Omid Farzadian
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, Institute for Advanced Studies
in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, 2016
MD modeling of phonon thermal transport in intergrannular materials.
Tel: +7 708 715 7315
Email: omid.farzadian@nu.edu.kz

Kairolla Sekerbayev
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2019
MD modeling of phonon thermal transport in irradiated and interfacial solids.
Tel: +7 777 382 2382

Vladimir Bessonov
PhD, University of Bialystok, Poland, 2012
Brillouin light scatering spectroscopy of phonon & spin waves in solids
Tel: +7 912 246 5078
Email: vladimir.bessonov@nu.edu.kz

Postdoctoral Researcher
Chingis Kharmyssov
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, Nazarbayev University, Astana,
Kazakhstan, 2020
Brillouin light scatering spectroscopy of biomaterials, biomechanics
Tel: +7 702 314 1098 Email:

Bayan Kurbanova
PhD Student
MS, MEPHI, Moscow, Russia, 2019
BS, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2017
Heat trasport in nanostructured materials. Raman and Brillouin micro-spectroscopy.
Tel: +7 965 187 2595
Email: bayan.kurbanova@nu.edu.kz

Anna Shamatova
PhD Student
MS, MEPHI, Moscow, Russia, 2018
BS, MEPHI, Moscow, Russia, 2016
Frequency & spatial domain thermoreflectance of irradiated materials
Tel: +7 778 117 4832
Email: anna.shamatova@nu.edu.kz


Ivan Tkhorzhevskiy
PhD Student
MS, ITMO, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2020
BS, St. Petersburg State University of Telecom, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2018
Thermal transport in bi-crystals
Tel: +7 705 226 1821
Email: ivan.tkhorzhevskiy@nu.edu.kz

Rustem Tlegenov
Lyazzat Mukhangaliyeva
Junior Researcher
MS, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2022
BS, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2015
Laser photo-acoustics for biomedical applications
Tel: +7 778 277 0397
Junior Researcher
MS, MIPT, Moscow, Russia, 2023
BS, STUS, Saratov, Russia, 2021
Thermoreflectance mapping automation, Nanoscale thermal transport in phase-transformed semiconductors
Tel: +7 778 117 4832
Email: rustem.tlegenov@nu.edu.kz