Moozhan Serpoush, the PhD student in the Department of Life Sciences at Khazar University, won a competition organized by the Azerbaijan Academy of Smart Technology-ASTA Foundation. The current competition was conducted among 38 graduate students from Turkey and Azerbaijan and Moozhan Serpush’s research work entitled "Effect of Iron Oxide Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Wheat and Barley Germination and Growth" was selected as the best research idea by the foundation and awarded 500 AZN.