A teacher from Nanyang Technological University, Dr. Xiaolei Feng, conducted research and methodological seminars for teaching staff and students of the Higher School of Natural Sciences and the Pedagogical Institute of Astana International University.
Xiaolei Feng is trained as a condensed matter physicist, having graduated with a bachelor’s degree and PhD from the department of Physics of Jilin University, China. Towards the end of her studies at Jilin, she realised the need to broaden her understanding of the physics of materials to encompass naturally-occurring materials’ behaviour in the environment. She therefore took the opportunity to undertake a 2nd PhD at the department of Earth sciences at University of Cambridge. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the research institute “High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR)” in Shanghai and Beijing, China. She also worked as associate professor at the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University, China before she joined the NTU in 2022.
Dr. Xiaolei Feng spoke on the Sustainable Development Goals and how they can be implemented in the educational process, as well as advanced/innovative teaching methods used at the School of Materials Engineering NTU. Students and teaching staff thanked the speaker and organizers (teachers of the Pedagogical institute G.S. Sagimbayeva and A.B. Kazhigalieva) for the opportunity.