Van Hieu Nguyen

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.