Prof. Akhemt Mazgarov

Prof.Mazgarov was born on 1 January 1943, in the village of Sosna in the Baltasi region of the Tatarstan Republic, central Asia. He belongs to the family of a mullah(religious scholar). In 1964 he graduated from the Kazan Chemical and Technological Institute. During 1956-1967, he wirked in the Kuibyshev plant of synthetic alcohol. He was a postgraduate student at the Moscow Mendeleev Chemical and Technological Institute (1968-1970) and in 1970, he defended his candidate's thesis. In 1972 ,Prof Mazgarov established the laboratory of desulfurization of hydrocarbon raw materials at VNIIUS (Kazan, becoming its director in  1985. He was awarded his doctorate of technical sciences in 1984, and successively become a full professor in 1990, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan (1991), honoured chemist of Tatarstan (1990), government prize laureate of Tatarstan in the field of science and technology (1998), elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences(20000).

Professor Akhmet Mazgarov is specialist in the field of organic sulfur chemistry, metal complex catalysis, oil and gas pricessing, chemistry and technology of the desulfurization processes of oil, gas and oil products. He is the auther of 120 scientific works, 109 patents, including 5 USA patents and 1 German patent. Prof Mazgarov was the first to develop the process of selective demercaptanization of crude oil (the DMC process), commercialized in 1995 by the USA oil company "Chevron" on the Tengiz oil-field in Kazakhstan. Twenty three commercial gas, gasoline and waste-water desulfurization plants in Russia and one plant of waste-water treatment in Bulgaria were built on the basis of technologies developed by Academician Mazgarov.

Two technologies developed by the Prof. Mazgarov were sold to the Islamic Republic of Iran, where more than 10 plants will be built. Prof. Mazgarov is married, has two daughters. His wife is an assistant professor at the Kazan State Technological University. His daughter Sofia is a student of Berkley University (UAS) and his other daughter Nailya is student at the Kazan State University. Prof. Mazgarov Vniius, 35-A, N.Ershov str., Kazan-420045, Tatarstan, Russia