Honors:

• • Specially Appointed Professor. Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (Appointment)(fr. 2024)

  • Distinguished Scientist (Phenikaa University 2020): Decision No. 144/QĐ-ĐHP-KHCN (May 7, 2020)

  • Elsevier-Stanford Ranking of top 2% most-cited scientists (Scopus-powered): 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

  • Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (Complete - Prof Ngo Bao Chau, Feb. 11, 2025)(pdf) - Associate Member, 2021-24 (page)

  • National prizes: 

    • “Ngọn lửa” (Blaze) Journalism Prize (2024)(Aug 16)(Tin/ảnh: Quân đội Nhân dân)

    • Vietnam National Journalism Prize 2010; awarded on June 21, 2011). Vietnam Journalists Association Announcement (pdf file)

    • Vietnam National Books Prize 2007 (awarded by Vietnam Publishers Association in 2008)

  • Kinh tế Việt Nam: Thăng trầm và đột phá (Nxb Chính trị quốc gia, Hà Nội 2009 - wikipedia) - coauthoring with the current Vietnam Prime Minister Prof. Phạm Minh Chính. ISBN: 9786045769478; Bối cảnh tài chính Việt Nam 1997-1998 và 2007-2008: khoảng cách và biến đổi (Nghiên cứu Kinh tế, 2008, also with Prof Phạm Minh Chính; download article pdf). Prof. Phạm Minh Chính (Thủ tướng Chính phủ, 2021 to date; Wikipedia)

• Member of Scientific Council on Basic Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (2022-24), National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED), Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology (pdf)

• Member of Scientific Council on Basic Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (2019-2022), National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED), Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology (pdf)

• Member: Scientific Council. The Hanoi Stock Exchange HNX, 2012-2016 (part of the State Securities Commission, Ministry of Finance). HNX-30 Index Committee. HNX Bond Index Committee. Decision 241/QĐ-SGDHN (pdf)

• Past Chair and Founder of the Vietnam Chapter of the European Association of Science Editors (2019-2022); pdf Jun 23, 2021). 

  • Top Peer Reviewer 2019 (by Web of Science); Publons Peer Review Awards 2018 (by Clarivate Analytics - Publons)

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