At the Department of Biotechnology of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, works a leading specialist in the field of bioengineering and biomaterials, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Honored Reviewer (TOP 10TH PERCENTILE) in 15 journals of the academic publishing house Elsevier, Professor of SUMSU Alexander Dmitrievich Pogrebnyak. A.D. Pogrebnyak takes an honorable 8th place in the top 10 scientists of Ukraine according to Scopus and Google Scholar. In international databases, he has a high citation index, the h-index is 47 (Scopus), the Google Scholar database h-index is 53.

A.D. Pogrebnyak, as an honored professor, was awarded a scholarship from the President of Ukraine. By decree of the President of Ukraine, he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, 2022.

During the period of his activity, he worked in the leading institutions of the world in the USA, Germany, as well as in collaboration with scientists from Japan, France, Germany, Australia, Italy, Finland, Poland, South Korea, China, Greece, Kazakhstan, etc. He has implemented more than 65 governmental contracts, agricultural contracts, governmental orders, international grants, orders of the ISTC (International Science and Technology Center), CSTC (Centre for Scientific and Technical Services).

Leading professor of the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) (Germany), winner of the “Top scientist of the year 2019” award according to SCOPUS-2019, member of the American Society of Microbiologists, Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Egamberdieva Dilfuza Rustamovna works at the Department of Biotechnology of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. In the Scopus database” she has 3159 articles,the h-index is 34.

Bernard Faye is Doctorate in veterinary medicine at Lyon (France) in 1974, then MSci in animal nutrition and endocrinology in 1980, PhD of Paris University in 1995 and HDR (French Research Capacity) at Montpellier University in 1998.

He is former scientific project manager in animal production sector at the International Cooperation Centre for agronomic Research in Development (CIRAD- France) and International camel expert at FAO (Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Mauritania, Chad, Kazakhstan)

After an eight-years African experience both in development (Niger) and in research (Ethiopia) on the topic “epidemiology of mineral deficiencies in livestock”, he passed his PhD in animal epidemiology in 1995 (Paris University), then his habilitation to manage research team (HDR), a French capacity diploma at Montpellier University in 1998

After African period, he joined the National Agronomic Research Institute -INRA as epidemiologist at the Ecopathology laboratory at Clermont-Ferrand (France) and was head of this laboratory for ten years (topic: studies on risk factors of diseases in dairy farming systems).

In 1996, he joined CIRAD- Montpellier as head of animal production program (1996-2007) and from 2010 to 2015 working as FAO international consultant in Saudi Arabia in the Camel Center at Kharj.

During this time, he achieved many expertises and missions in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Since 2016, he is retired from CIRAD and is at present independent international camel expert for FAO, OIE, WHO and private sector.

He is awarded of the French Vet academy and “Chevalier du mérite agricole” (Ministry of Agriculture high distinction). He is author of 23 books and chapters in different books and more than 600 scientific papers. Moreover, he is one of the founders of ISOCARD (International Society of Camelid Research and Development), first chairman of this Society.