Saule Yertayevna Bekzhanova
Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences
Email: s.bekzhanova@alt.edu.kz
Brief (professional biography)
After successfully graduating from the Alma-Ata Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in 1985, she worked as an Assistant at the Department of Freight and Commercial Operations Management. From 1986 to 1990, she was a postgraduate student at the Department of Railway Stations and Junctions of the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers. In 1990, she defended her Candidate of Technical Sciences dissertation ahead of schedule on the topic “Selection of Rational Designs for Passenger Station Throats” in specialty 05.22.08 – Operation of Railway Transport (including signalling, centralization and blocking systems and technological communications) at the V.I. Obraztsov Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers. From 1990 to 2022, she worked at the M. Tynyshpayev Kazakh Academy of Transport and Communications (later renamed the Academy of Logistics and Transport), holding the positions of Assistant, Associate Professor, Head of Department, Dean, Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Vice-Rector for Research, and Professor. In 2002, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Theory and Practice of Transportation of Oil and Petroleum Products by Rail Taking into Account the Interaction of Track and Rolling Stock” at the M. Tynyshpayev Kazakh Academy of Transport and Communications in specialties 05.22.06 – Railway Track, Survey and Design of Railways and 05.22.08 – Management of Transportation Processes. S.E. Bekzhanova is actively engaged in research in the field of railway transportation. She has published more than 150 scientific works addressing such issues as the efficiency of rail transportation of oil and petroleum products; acceleration of unloading of high-paraffin crude oil and solidifying petroleum products from railway tank cars; cleaning of railway tank cars; geometric and force irregularities of rail tracks; dynamic track irregularities; organization of combined transportation; assessment of the quality of transport services; securing cargo on open rolling stock; improvement of passenger transportation; railway logistics; and transportation process management. Membership in scientific organizations: Academician of the International Academy of Transport, Certificate No. 638; Member of the Republican Educational and Methodological Council and Chair of the “Transport Services” Section; Member of the Expert Council of the Committee for Attestation and Supervision of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2007–2009; Member of the Dissertation Council for doctoral dissertation defenses at the Academy of Logistics and Transport. Awards and achievements: “Honorary Railway Worker”; “Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan”; awarded the medal “100 Years of the Railways of Kazakhstan” and the badge “For Merits in the Development of Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan”; scholarship holder of the Bolashak International Scholarship Programme; Best University Teacher of 2016.
Education
1980–1985 – Alma-Ata Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, specialty “Transportation Process Management”; qualification – Railway Transportation Management Engineer.
1987–1990 – V.I. Obraztsov Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, full-time postgraduate study, specialty 05.22.08 – Operation of Railway Transport (including signalling, centralization and blocking systems).
1990 – defended the Candidate of Technical Sciences dissertation entitled “Selection of Rational Designs for Passenger Station Throats” ahead of schedule. Academic degree – Candidate of Technical Sciences.
2002 – defended the doctoral dissertation entitled “Theory and Practice of Transportation of Oil and Petroleum Products by Rail Taking into Account the Interaction of Track and Rolling Stock” at the M. Tynyshpayev Kazakh Academy of Transport and Communications, specialties 05.22.06 – Railway Track, Survey and Design of Railways and 05.22.08 – Management of Transportation Processes. Academic degree – Doctor of Technical Sciences.
Participation in scientific projects
1. Participation in Project BR21882292, “Integrated Development of a Sustainable Construction Industry: Innovative Technologies, Production Optimization, Efficient Use of Resources and Creation of a Technology Park.” Leading Researcher responsible for Task 7, “Planning and Optimization of Internal and External Logistics Business Processes of Construction Industry Enterprises,” from October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025.
2. UN ESCAP Project “Transit Transport Problems of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries: A Study of the Situation in Kazakhstan” (2003).
3. Project “Feasibility Study for the Construction of the Trans-Kazakhstan Railway Main Line with a Track Gauge of 1,435 mm.”
4. Project “Study of the Operating Conditions of Transport and Logistics Centers and Development of Mechanisms to Stimulate Their Establishment in Kazakhstan and Scientifically Substantiated Recommendations for Their Development.”
5. Project Manager of the TEMPUS Project “Institute for Strategic University Management.”
6. Project Manager of the ERASMUS Project “Economics, Ecology and Infrastructure on High-Speed Railways.”
7. Member of the research group of Project BR21882292 “Integrated Development of a Sustainable Construction Industry: Innovative Technologies, Production Optimization, Efficient Use of Resources and Creation of a Technology Park.” Responsible researcher and Leading Researcher for Task 7, “Planning and Optimization of Internal and External Logistics Business Processes of Construction Industry Enterprises,” from October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025.
8. Member of the research group of Programme-Targeted Funding Project BR27198643 “Development of Digital Competencies of Human Capital in Industry and Logistics through Cluster Interaction between Science, Education and Industry,” from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026.
Publications
Influence of the deformed state of a road bridge on operational safety. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 2022-04-28. DOI: 10.15587/1729-4061.2022.255275.
Scopus Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering – 45%. Development of safety methods on artificial structures of railway lines. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 2022, 6(1 (120)), 43–52. DOI: 10.15587/1729-4061.2022.269964.
Scopus Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering – 45%. Prospects for the development of digital economy in the Republic of Kazakhstan. AIP Conference Proceedings, 2022, 2449, 040001. DOI: 10.1063/5.0103817.
Scopus General Physics and Astronomy – 15%. Measures of effective use of the capacity of two-track sections of JSC “Uzbekistan Railways”. E3S Web of Conferences, 401, 05041, 2023, pp. 1–12. DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202340105041.
Scopus General Earth and Planetary Sciences – 23%. The Relationship between Gold and Oil Prices and the Stock Market Returns of Kazakh Energy Companies: Comparison of the pre-COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 Periods. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2023, 13(5), 8–14. DOI: 10.32479/ijeep.14554.
Scopus General Earth and Planetary Sciences – 75%. Review of the Study on the Cognitive Technologies of Transporting Waste from Mining Industry. Proceedings of the 3rd Cognitive Mobility Conference. COGMOB 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 1258, pp. 314–319. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81799-1_28.
Impact of digital integration of logistics cluster Participants on supply chain resilience. Naukovyi Visnyk Natsionalnoho Hirnychoho Universytetu, 2026, №2, pp. 131–140. DOI: 10.33271/nvngu/2026-2/131.
Modeling the Resilience of Agricultural Intermodal Logistics in Kazakhstan Under Dynamic Export Demand and Infrastructure Constraints. Logistics, 2026, 10, 143. DOI: 10.3390/logistics10070143.
