Bulat Kenessov was appointed as the new Deputy Chairman of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Bulat Kenessov, former Director of the Center of Physical Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), was appointed as the new Deputy Chairman of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
B. Kenessov is the graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of KazNU (2003). In 2007, he defended a dissertation for a Candidate of Chemical Science degree, in 2012 he got a scientific title of Associate Professor (Docent), in 2017 – Professor. He had internships in Wageningen University (The Netherlands), Iowa State University (USA), University of Barcelona (Spain) and Gdansk University of Technology (Poland).
He is an author of >100 scientific publications including 26 articles in reputable international journals, of which 13 are in the top journals from the first quartile. His h-indices are 11 (Web of Science) and 13 (Scopus). Under his supervision, 1 dissertation for Candidate of Science degree and 5 Ph.D. dissertations were defended.
He has a letter of thanks from the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2019) and is the winner of the Prize of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2014). He is an active member of the Council of Young Scientists (CYS) under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan since its inception (2019). Since 2018, he has been conducting a detailed analysis of the publication activity of Kazakhstani scientists, doctoral students and scientific organizations, the results of which are discussed in the CYS and social networks.