Dilbar Sultanova received her specialist degree in chemistry in 1997, and her PhD in economics in 2000. Both degrees were granted by Kazan National Research Technological University. Further postdoctoral studies resulted in obtaining Doctor of Economics degree, granted by St-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics (ENGECON) in 2009.

The postdoctoral research of Dr. Dilbar Sultanova is focused on the influence of a market structure on innovative activities of Russian chemical and petrochemical companies. Dilbar continued her career in Kazan National Research Technological University at the position of the Chair of the Department of Economics and Management in Nizhnekamsk Chemical Engineering Institute in 2002-2012. She supervised several projects for Tatarstan chemical and petrochemical companies in the years 2002-2007 and headed the Department of Macroeconomic Research in Advanced Economic Research Center in the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan in the years 2007-2010. Her contribution to the projects was the supervision of their economic sections (including setting of research objectives, project supervision, economic assessment, report writing, presentations, and publishing of research discoveries). She was personally involved in the strategic planning of economic development at a regional level. All these research activities contributed to her outstanding professional recognition confirmed by the awards given by the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Dr. Sultanova is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers in Medicine and Cosmetics and chair of the Department of Innovations in Chemical Engineering at Kazan National Research Technological University. At this position she is focused on development of multidisciplinary undergraduate and post graduate entrepreneurship programs at Kazan National Research Technological University.

Dr. Dilbar Sultanova is the author or co-author of 100 various publications including research papers, study guides and conference proceedings.

In her Jean Monnet module role, Dilbar Sultanova gives lectures on the multiple dimensions of the EU Policy to Support Innovative Engineering Entrepreneurship. She will also be responsible for introducing changes into the study plan of the MSc students.

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