Implementation of State-of-the-Art Learning Tools in the School of Engineering at Nazarbayev University in the Post-Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan

Dr. Moulay Rachid Babaa received his M.E. in Chemical Processes in 2001 from Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand France and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2004 From Henri Poincare University, Nancy France. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Laboratoire des Colloides Verres et Nanomateriaux CNRS in Montpellier , France. He also worked as a senior researcher at the Institut Rayonnement Matiere de Saclay at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Currently, he his an associate professor of Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. His interests involve the synthesis, surface modification and assembly of nano-materials (carbon nanotubes, nano-particles, nano-composites) and and the study of their physical properties.