Atlas of new professions and competencies

Computational Chemist

Profession will appear after 2025

Trends

Declining profitability of late deposits in Kazakhstan Increase in the number of domestic and foreign developments adaptation for oil and gas fields of Kazakhstan Growth in production of hydrocarbons from light oil fractions, in particular propane, for polymer synthesis

Oil and gas

The use of computer models speeds up chemical experiments that can take months in real time. In addition, no expensive reagents are required for computer simulation. Unlike an experiment, a computer model shows the variable results obtained when one or more parameters of the experiment are changed.

The novelty of the profession: solving existing problems in new ways: conducting physical and chemical experiments using software.

Key competencies:

Using mathematical algorithms, statistics, and large databases to integrate chemical theory and modeling with experimental observations
Creation of models and simulation of physical processes
Using statistics and data analysis techniques to extract useful information from large data sets

Over-professional skills

The ability of a specialist to combine (summarize) particular facts into a big picture, build hierarchical levels for understanding various situations (economic, political, business) and making long-term decisions. An important quality is the understanding of how a change in one element will subsequently affect other elements.

The importance of systemic thinking is increasing due to the acceleration of changes in life, the need to learn new professions, as well as the growing interpenetration of various areas in each other (social networks, economics, politics, production, etc.).

Specialists with systemic thinking skills will be able to solve such problems, make strong long-term decisions in the context of rapid changes in the economy, diagnose large technical and social systems, make decisions on eliminating the root causes that hinder development, and this skill will allow for the integration of various project teams into a single working organism.

Systemic thinking

Educational institutions

Karaganda State Technical University