Zhangabay Nurlan was born on February 4, 1983, in the city of Shymkent, south Kazakhstan region. In 1999, after graduating from the specialized school of the gymnasium "Bolashak" in the city of Shymkent, he entered and in 2004 graduated from the M.O. Auezov South Kazakhstan State University with a degree in civil engineering. In 2004, he entered graduate school and in 2007, on December 26, defended his Ph.D. thesis in the specialty 01.02.04–"Mechanics of a deformable solid." At the moment, he is an associate professor of the Department of Construction and Building Materials of the M. Auezov South Kazakhstan University. He has more than 100 publications in various journals and international conferences. He is a reviewer of highly rated journals included in the Scopus database: "EUREKA: Physics and Engineering" and "Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies" (Publons ID: AFS-1741-2022). He is married and has six children.