Dariya Kassymova is a PhD candidate at the Department of Chemistry and Technology of Organic Substances, Natural Compounds, and Polymers at al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Her research focuses on developing and validating technological schemes for obtaining substances from Limonium Mill plants and preparing plant-based gels. Dariya has interned at the University of Valencia, La Sapienza University of Rome, The National Center of Expertise of Medicines and Medical Devices, and Abdi Ibrahim Global Pharm. She has published more than 10 papers and abstracts in reputed journals and conference proceedings.