Asellle Tasmagambetova graduated from the Kazakh State Law University with a degree in Law in 1999. In 2009, she graduated from the International Independent University of Ecology and Political Science with a degree in Ecology and Natural Resource Management.

From 2010 to 2014, she lectured on environmental law at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. In 2012, together with a team of students, she founded the Central Asian Institute for Environmental Research (CAIER), which conducts research in the field of environmental protection, develops new methods for the disposal of industrial waste, and studies the impact of industrial facilities on nature.

In response to the urgent need to preserve the Caspian seal population, Asel Tasmagambetova established the Centre for the Study and Rehabilitation of the Caspian Seal in the city of Aktau with the aim of restoring the population of this rare species.

Asel Tasmagambetova’s efforts and her dynamic international activities led to the accelerated inclusion of Pusa caspica in the Republic’s Red Book. To achieve this important step from the state, a great deal of scientific and administrative work had to be carried out. Four international scientific expeditions were organised, involving scientists from Kazakhstan, France, Russia and Iran, with the aim of studying the status of the Caspian seal population. This data provided irrefutable scientific grounds for submitting an application to include the animal in the Red Book.

Asel Tasmagambetova has published two scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.