Erlan Nursultanov is a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and a Professor at the Kazakhstan Branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics at Karaganda State University in 1979 and completed his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University in 1982. He received his PhD in Mathematics in 1983 (MSU) and his Doctor of Sciences degree in 1999 from the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include harmonic analysis, operator theory, interpolation of function spaces, and approximation theory. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications.