Speakers

Prof. Nguyen Dinh Duc

Professor Duc is the Vice-President of Vietnamese Association in Mechanics and a member of the Professor Election Council in Mechanics of Vietnam, the Head of Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Structures, the Dean of the Faculty of in Civil Engineering - VNU Hanoi, University of Engineering and Technology (UET). He also is the President of the network club about ensures the quality of higher education of Vietnam; Program Director of Civil Engineering Program of Vietnam-Japan University (VJU); Program Director of Automation and informatics Program of International School (IS), Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Professor Duc holds a Ph.D. in mathematics -physics from Moscow State University (1991) and a Doctor of Science degree (Dr. Habilitation) in Engineering from Russian Academy of Sciences (1997). He had been appointed to Associate Professor (2007) and Full Professor (2013) at Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Professor Duc has over 350 publications in which over 200 papers have appeared in numerous ISI (SCI, SCIE) journals. He is the member of Editorial Board of 10 ISI International journals. Last but not least, he has written 6 textbooks and monographs for the undergraduate and graduate programs in Vietnamese, Russian and English. Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has been a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (since 1999). He was a member of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (1999-2004), the former Vice-President and Secretary general of Vietnam Science-Technical Association in Russia (1999-2001), former Vice President of Vietnamese Young Scientist Association in Vietnam (2004-2010), Vice President of the University of Engineering and Technology, VNU (2008-2012). Professor Duc has been awarded Silver Medal of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for the Invention on The law-behavior of mechanical characteristic for three-phase composite 3Dm reinforced by spherical particles (in Russia, 1999) and the Third Prize of “Talented Vietnamese National Award ” (in Vietnam, 2008). Because of outstanding contributions to the national education and training career, professor Duc has received the VNU President’s merit of excellence awards in years 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and the Prime Minister’s merit of excellence award in 2009. Certificate of Merit granted by the Minister of Education of Vietnam, 2019,2022. He has been selected as one of the most outstanding people in Vietnam education system in 2015, President of Vietnam awarded 3-rd class Labour Medal in 2016, 2-nd class Labour Medal in 2022. Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc was announced by the US journal PLoS Biology to be in the list of the top 10,000 greatest influential scientists in the world in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and ranking 85 in the field of Engineering in the world in 2023.