CV

Education

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, University of Birmingham, 2018-2020.

• PhD in Mathematics (Cum laude), University of Bath and Eindhoven University of Technology, 2010-2014.

• MSc in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Cum laude), Eindhoven University of Technology and Kaiserslautern University of Technology, 2008-2010.

• BSc in Informatics and Applied Mathematics (distinction), Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 2001-2006.

Appointments

• Affiliate of the Institute for Data and AI at University of Birmingham, since 06/2025. 

• Professor of Mathematics,University of Birmingham, 08/2024-present

• Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, 08/2022-07/2024.

• Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham, 08/2018-07/2022.

• Chapman Fellow in Mathematics, Imperial College London, 10/2017-07/2018

• Research Fellow, University of Warwick, 10/2014-09/2017.

• Marie Currie PhD Fellowship, Eindhoven University of Technology, 10/2012-09/2014.

• Marie Currie PhD Fellowship, University of Bath, 10/2010-09/2012.

• Junior researcher, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 08/2006-08/2008.

Visiting positions.

• Visiting research fellow, University of Warwick, 2017-2018

• Visiting researcher, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, spring 2015.

Honours and Awards

• Jinan-Birmingham Joint Institute prize for research excellence, 2024.

• Nominated for a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics and Statistics in 2023 by University of Birmingham.

• Awarded the best doctoral project of the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and nominated for best PhD thesis award at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2014.

• Cum laude PhD in Applied Mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 09/2014. - A paper selected for Hightlights Collection of the year 2013, by the journal Nonlinearity.

• Cum laude M.Sc. degree in Mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology and Kaiserslautern University of Technology, 08/2010.

Grants and Fellowships

• Research in Group at Oberwolfach, co-PI, May 2026.

• Research in Group at ICMS (Edinburgh) Grant, co-PI, April-June 2024.

• EPSRC Standard Grant, leading PI, project Evolutionary Game Theory Under Uncertainty, 2024-2026.

• Royal Society International Exchanges Grant, PI, project Model reduction in evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations, 2023-2025. - LMS Undergraduate Research Bursary, PI, 2022.

• EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Small Grant, PI project Rigorous coarse-graining of defects at positive temperature, 2022-2023.

• EPSRC New Investigator Award, PI, project Variational structures, convergence to equilibrium and multiscale analysis for non-Markovian systems, 2022-2024.

• Paper of the month award, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham, 10/2019.

• London Mathematical Society Scheme 9 Grant, PI, 12/2019.

• Chapman Fellow, Department of Mathematics, PI, Imperial College London, 10/2017-09/2019.

• London Mathematical Society Research Scheme Grant, PI, 10/2016

• Workshop grant, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, University of Bonn, 01/2015 (co-applicant).

• Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Student Grant,12/2013

• Marie Curie PhD Fellowship, 10/2010-09/2014

• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Master in Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 08/2008-08/2010

• Vietnamese government scholarship for undergraduate study and various prizes in mathematical competitions for undergraduate students (2001-2006).