Murat Zhurinov

Murat Zhurinov was born in the town of Arys, South Kazakhstan Region on December 7, 1941, to a family of workers.^[2]

Having received a degree in process engineering in 1964 at the Kazakh Chemical Technology Institute, he started working in the field of education and science. He began his career as a lecturer at KazCTI (1964–1966). Later he entered full-time postgraduate program at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technologies, where he defended his PhD thesis in January 1970. He continued his teaching career in KazCTI as a senior lecturer, then head of department and faculty dean (1970–1982).^[3] Murat defended his doctorate thesis in Moscow in 1981 and received his academic rank of a Professor the same year.^[4] Since 1982 he worked as Vice-Rector of Karaganda State University, Director of the Institute of Organic Synthesis and Coal Chemistry of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences (1985–1991), Rector of the Turkestan State University named after Ahmad Yasawi (1991–1995), Minister of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995–1997),^[5] President of the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Yasawi (1997–2001). In 2003, Murat Zhurinov became the head of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan and held this position until 2023.^[6][7] He was elected a Fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities