Gulaim Seisenbaeva

Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva received her PhD degree in inorganic chemistry in 1989 from the Moscow State University. She worked in the industries after graduation and was appointed a Senior Researcher at the Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology in 1993. She made her postdoc work at Stockholm University in 1996. Since 2000 she was Senior Researcher at SLU in Uppsala, where she obtained her Habilitation degree in Materials Chemistry in 2004 and later was promoted to Full Professor in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry.  Her major research focus is on design, synthesis and characterization of inorganic and hybrid porous nanomaterials with applications for recycling, environment protection, and energy storage.

Research interests:

• Synthesis and structure elucidation of molecular precursors
• Precursor directed synthesis of porous materials
• Tailoring functional hybrid adsorbents for water remediation and hydrometallurgy
• Application of porous oxides as alkali ion battery materials

My research work has always been concentrated on development of chemical synthetic approaches to new materials, aiming to influence purpose characteristics of the material by varying chemical and physicochemical parameters of its synthesis. In my projects I am always trying to trace and understand the transformation from molecular precursors to materials with desired properties. The focus of my work is in the search for Molecular Chemistry approaches to nano-level defined materials. During the work at SLU for the last 25 years my research became strongly directed toward the use of bio-based materials and to applications in the Green Sector in the domains of environmental science and protection of the environment, bio-energy and bio-catalysis.

Lecturer and course responsible for General Chemistry part in the courses Fundamentals of Chemistry 1 and 2, Chemistry block in Animal Biology course, teacher in the courses Environmental Geochemistry, General Chemistry and Chemical Energy Sources for engineers, Bionanotechnology course for PhD students etc.

Supervision
PhD:              Pavel Shcheglov, PhD 2002 (co-supervisor); Gerald Spijksma, PhD 2006 (co-supervisor); Kai Wilkinson, PhD 2013 (co-supervisor); Martin Palmqvist, PhD 2017 (co-supervisor); Olesya Nikonova, PhD 2011 (main supervisor); Elizabeth Polido Legaria, PhD 2018 (main supervisor), Troy Breijaert, PhD, at present (main supervisor), Ehsan Moslehi, industrial PhD, at present (main supervisor).

Post-docs:     Seda Demirel Topel 2013-2014; Inna Melnyk 2013; Roman Pogorilyi, 2013-2016, Oksana Dudarko, 2015; Hiroaki Uchiyama 2014-2015; Michail Samouhos 2015-2016; Fredrik Heyman 2015-2017, Ievgen Pylypchuk, 2017 -2019, Ani Vardanyan -2019- at present.