Van Hieu Nguyen
BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Van Hieu Nguyen
Date of birth: 21 July 1938.
Place of birth: Hanoi, Vietnam.
Address: 12 Nguyen Huy Tu Str., Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi.
APPOINTMENTS
1956-1960: Lecturer of Faculty of Physics, Hanoi University.
1960-1968: Researcher and Leader of Research Group, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR.
1969-1992: Director, Institute of Physics.
1975-1983: Vice-President, National Center for Scientific Research NCSR of Vietnam.
1983-1993: President, National Center for Scientific Research NCSR of Vietnam.
1993-1994: General Director, National Centre for Natural Sciences and Technology NCST of Vietnam.
1993-1996: Director, Institute of Materials Science.
1994-2004: President, National Centre for Natural Sciences and Technology NCST of Vietnam.
1994-1996: Co-chairman, International Planning Committee of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics APCTP, Seoul, Korea.
1996-2002: Chairman of General Council of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics APCTP, Seoul-Pohang, Korea.
2004-2005: Rector, College Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
2004-2006: Chairman, Scientific Council of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam.
2004-2010: Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics APCTP, Pohang, Korea.
2004-present: Chairman, Scientific Council of Materials Science, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology.
HONOURS
1968: Professor of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics of USSR.
1982: Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of USSR.
1984: Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
AWARDS
1986: Lenin Prize for Science and Technique.
1996: Ho Chi Minh Prize for Science and Technique.
PUBLICATIONS more than 200 scientific papers and several books.