Dr. Timur Sh. Atabaev earned his Ph.D. in 2012 at Pusan National University (South Korea) under the supervision of Prof. Hyung Kook Kim and Prof. Yoon-Hwae Hwang. He was a postdoctoral fellow and research professor at Pusan National and Seoul National Universities from 2012 to 2017. Dr. Atabaev joined Nazarbayev University in 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. His research interests include multifunctional materials and advanced nanostructures for biomedical, optical, energy, sensing, and photocatalytic applications. He is currently a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Materials Research Society (MRS). He is also a recipient of the "Young Researcher of the Year" Scopus 2018 and WoS "Leader of Science" 2020 international awards. Furthermore, he serves as an associate editor of the Frontiers in Chemistry and Micro & Nano Letters journals.