Conference/workshop organizing
Co-organiser of the mini-symposium ”From Wave Turbulence to Kinetic Theory” at Wave-Ned 2026, Delft, 26–28 August 2026.
Organiser of the workshop ”Interacting particle systems and Kinetic Models”, University of Birmingham, July 2025.
Organiser of the workshop ”Interacting particle systems and nonlocal PDEs”, University of Birmingham, June 2024.
Co-organiser of the mini-symposium ”Evolutionary Dynamics of Prosocial Behaviours under Incentives” at the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE2024), University of Vienna, July 15-18, 2024.
Co-organiser of the session ”Computer Algebra Applications in the Life Sciences” at the International Congress on Mathematical Software, Durham University, 2024
Co-organizer, mini-symposium ”Nonreversible processes: theory and applications”, 14th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Paris, 26-30/06, 2023.
Organizer of the workshop ”Interplay of partial differenetial equations and stochastic processes”, University of Birmingham, 03/2023.
Co-organizer of the workshop Stochastic/Partial Differential Equations, University of Birmingham, 06/2022.
Co-organiser of the reading group on Mathematics of Data Science, University of Birmingham, 2022-2023.
Co-organiser, mini-symposium ”Nonreversible processes: Analysis and Computations” at the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, 04/2022.
Co-organiser, mini-symposium ”Social Evolution under Uncertainty” at 8th Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution,07/2022, Reading.
Co-organizer, session ”Wasserstein gradient flows and their applications”,13th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, 08/2021
Co-organizer, minisymposium ”Evolutionary Game Theory under Uncertainty” at the annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, 06/2021.
Co-founder and co-organizer of the Data Science and Computational Statistics Seminar, University of Birmingham, since 07/2020.
Co-organizer, Analysis Seminar, University of Birmingham, 2019-2020.
Co-organizer, mini-symposium ’Different Viewpoints on Multi-Scale Problems’, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, 04/2019.
Co-organizer, IMC Problem Solving Seminar, University of Warwick, 01-03/2017. - Co-organizer, workshop ”Analytic approaches to scaling limits for random systems”, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, 02/2015.
Co-organizer, reading seminar on large deviation principles, Eindhoven University of Technology, 02-07/2014.
Co-organizer, ITN-FIRST workshop on the art of presenting science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 06/2013
Co-organizer of the ITN-FIRST midterm meeting, University of Bath, 12/2011.
Editorial Board
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Nature), 2023-present.
Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering (Taylor & Francis), 2025-present.
Applicable Analysis (Taylor & Francis), 2025-present.
Funding evaluator for research councils: I have provided expert assessments for various research councils/organisations including
EPSRC (I am a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College).
UKRI (I am a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College).
Banff International Research Station
VinFuture Prize
The Institute forInterdisciplinary Data Science and AI (University of Birmingham)
Academic promotions for universities in China, France, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam
Research projects in universities in United Arab Emirates.
Novelty Indicators Challenge, UK MetaScience Unit.
Member of the scientific committee of the British Mathematical Colloquium 2027, University of Birmingham.
PhD examinations
Member of PhD committee panel, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2017
PhD internal examiner, University of Birmingham, 2024.
PhD external examiner, Teesside University, 2025
PhD internal examiner, University of Birmingham, 2026
PhD external examiner, University College Dublin, 2027
Promotion of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity
I have been actively promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI). I always take into account EDI in my research activities, and events that I organised.
provided expert assessment in terms of EDI for proposals for Banff Research Station (Canada) since 2023.
member of the EDI Committee at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, 2018-2021.
panel member for the event Hidden Pioneers Black Voices Campaign, University of Birmingham, March 2021.
supported participation of disabled students in the Simon Marais Maths Competition for undergraduate students at the University of Birmingham, 2024.
Enterprise, Engagement and Impact
I have been a scientic mentor at the Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) since 2025.
I have delivered a public lecture for in the Birmingham Popular Maths Lectures, February 2024.
I have been a coordinator and scientific supervisor of the Postgraduate Taught (PGT) Knowledge Exchange Pathway (KEP) Project at Birmingham in 2022-2023.
I have delivered engagement talks during several industry events such as the workshop ”A quantitative approach to healthcare” (Birmingham, July 2021) and the ”Maths in Healthcare Hub Industry Engagement Day” (Birmingham, June 2019).
I have delivered a talk ”Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research”, Higher Education Futures Institute, University of Birmingham, 12/2022.
I have been a local co-ordinator for the Simon Marais Maths Competition for undergraduate students, University of Birmingham, since 2022.
I have co-organised and instructor for a problem solving seminar for Warwick’s team for the 24th International Mathematical Competition, 2017.
I have had an interview with the alumni association of Hanoi University of Science and Technology (08/2018) to encourage students to pursue a career in science and mathematics.
I have written popular press articles to popularise Mathematics and Science published in Atlas of Science (2020) and Bulletin of Vietnam mathematical society (2007-2008).
Referee for journals
I regularly provide referee report for many scientific journals, including:
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Communications on Mathematical Sciences, Discrete and Continuous Systems- A, Journal of Statistical Physics, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, PLOS Computational Biology, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, International Journal of Game Theory, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Proc. Royal. Edin A, The IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, Applicable Analysis, Applied Mathematics and Computation.
Seminar/Conference Talks
I regularly deliver research talks at conferences/workshops/departmental seminars/mini-courses; recent talks include
seminars at: Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (July 2026), Manchester (May 2026), Bielefeld, (February 2026), Graz (January 2026), King’s College London (12/2024); University of Warwick (10/2024); Durham University (05/2023), Imperial College London (01/2023), University of California Santa Cruz (11/2022), University of South Carolina (10/2021), Heriot-Watt University (03/2020).
conferences/workshops: Workshop on Game Theory, University of Birmingham, May 2026 (invited plenary speaker), Warwick Waves Workshop ( University of Warwick, December 2025), Conference ”Future Algorithms” (June 11-12, 2025), British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Exeter June 2025; ICMS, Edinburgh, workshop ”Dimensionality reduction techniques for molecular dynamics” June 2025; International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Tokyo, 08/2023), conference on Artificial Life (2022, 2020), conference Ecology and Evolution(CIRM, 04/2021), workshop nonlinear processes and their applications (Universit´e Jean Monnet,07/2019), workshop Small Scales and Homogenisation (Cardiff University, 06/2019).