Durvudkhan Suragan, PhD

Dr. Durvudkhan Suragan received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in 2013. He has a master’s degree (with distinction) in theoretical physics from King’s College London. Prior to joining Nazarbayev University in 2018, he served in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London as a research associate and at the Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling (Almaty) as a leading researcher. His current research interests include analysis on Lie groups, applied mathematics (mathematical physics), PDE, potential theory and spectral geometry.

In 2013, Dr. Suragan won the Konayev prize for young scientists (in Kazakhstan) for the best work in the field of natural sciences.

In 2018, Dr. Suragan received the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize. Suragan won the prize for his (with Professor Michael Ruzhansky, Imperial College London) monograph: Hardy inequalities on homogeneous groups, Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 327, Birkhauser, 2019. xvi+588pp.

In 2020, Dr. Suragan was awarded the Al-Farabi State Prize. The Al-Farabi State Prize is the highest recognition of the merits of scientists and technicians to society and the state.

In 2022, Dr. Suragan was invited as a chair for the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). ICM is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics.

In 2023, Dr. Suragan was invited as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. He was a Simons fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences for the period of April-June, 2023.