On October 27, at a meeting of the Dissertation Council, chaired by Academician Ramiz Mammadov, Shahnaz Amanova defended her thesis on specialty 5408. 01- Physical geography and biogeography, soil geography, geophysics and geochemistry of landscapes to get PhD Doctoral Degree on the theme “The foothills of Ajinohur and ecogeographic features of the transformation of modern landscapes of adjacent territories”.

By secret ballot, a decision was made to petition the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan to assign a scientific degree of PhD in Geography to Shahnaz Amanova.