Alpysbay Margulan completed his Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies in 2014–2018, followed by a Master’s degree in 2018–
2020, and a Doctoral program in 2021–2024.
His academic interests focus on the phenomenology of religion, the dynamics of religious conversion, religious experience
analysis, narrative methodologies, transformation processes in human life, shifts in religious identity, and the social-psychological
mechanisms of religiosity. His research applies mixed methods, integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches, large-scale
transcript corpus analysis, NLP-based prescoring, content analysis, and comparative statistical methodologies.
Alpysbay Margulan is fluent in several languages, which enables him to work effectively with multilingual textual corpora and
conduct cross-cultural research on religious experience.
He was a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship in 2016–2017.
As a researcher, his aim is to elucidate how religious experience contributes to life re-meaning, strengthen the bridge between
theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence, and advance the scientific understanding of religious conversion at a higher level.