Education 

• 2012 - 2015 · PhD in Water Science and Technology (for Ecohydrology) with an Excellent – Programa de Doctorado en Ciencia y Tecnología del Agua. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales (Department of Environmental Sciences), Instituto de Ecología Acuática, Universidad de Girona, España - Spain.

• 2006 - 2007 · Master of Science in Agronomy and Bioengineering – DEA en Sciences agronomiques et Ingénierie biologique. Unité d’Hydrologie et d’Hydraulique agricole, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (ex-FUSAGx) of Université de Liège, Belgique - Belgium.

• 2003 - 2006 · Engineer’s Degree (or Diploma) in Rural Engineering – Diplôme d’Ingénieur [et Diplôme universitaire de Technologie (DUT, 1999 - 2002)] en Génie rural. Département de Génie rural, Institut de Technologie du Cambodge - Cambodia.

• 1996 - 1999 · Baccalaureate (or Diplôme du baccalauréat,  namely in Khmer: សញ្ញាប័ត្រមធ្យមសិក្សាទុតិយភូមិ). Preah Yukunthor High School - Cambodia.

Trainings

• 16/01/2026. Satellite Remote Sensing for Environmental and Civil Engineering was presented by a senior scientist and adjunct professor (Tarendra Lakhankar) at the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY) at KHEOBS-Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. http://www.lakhankar.com/ 

• 29/11/2024. OpenStreetMap: Presentation of the project and potential in research applications was given by an IRD Health Geographer (Vincent Herbreteau), related to the AfriCAM project, at KHEOBS-Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

• 30/10–10/11/2023. Training on cartography using old aerial photos was given by an IGNFI expert (Vincent Bousquet), funded by the French Embassy (FSPI-R KAPA Project), at KHEOBS-Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

• 2-6 and 10/10/2023. Workshop on Accessing and Applying Satellite Data for Monitoring Water Resources in the Mekong and Tonle Sap Basin, jointly organized by scientists from the USA (AWEP-USAID/Cambodia, Eyes on Earth, and STIMSON) and KHEOBS laboratory. Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

• 7-9/12/2022. Training on the monitoring of environmental dynamics by remote sensing was given by the IRD scientists at UMR Espace-Dev (SEAS-OI Station, La Réunion, France). Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

• 22-24/06/2022. Training on Earth Observation for Hydrology and Landcover Mapping was given by the IRD scientists at UMR Espace-Dev (Montpellier, France). Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

• 26–30/09/2022. Visite d'études du projet PURSEA à Nancy (Université de Lorraine, France) et à Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique): Stratégie, Pilotage, Formation, Recherche, Doctorat et Internationale.

• 1-15/05/2022. The Biannual Steering Committee of the INOWASIA project in Girona (University of Girona, Spain) and in Toulouse (Université Paul Sabatier, France): Development of innovative multilevel formation programs for the new water-leading professionals in South-East Asia. 

• 18–21/02/2020. Short-course Training on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with an R package ‘lavaan’ [taught by Prof. Christophe CLEYS, a psychologist from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium]. Faculty of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering. Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

• 12/06–5/07/2019. Postdoctoral Research Associate Training in Water Management, Society, and Climate Change. University of South-Eastern Norway (Challenges of Global Climate Change) and University of Bergen (Global Challenges Program #BSRS2019) – Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge og Universitetet i Bergen - Norway.

• 7–27/04/2019. Water Quality Analyses: major ions using ion chromatography and cyanotoxins using ELISA method (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering); Measurements of TOC and BOD (School of Life Science and Technology). Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

• 18–20/12/2018. Training Course on Project and Financial Management. Research and Innovation Centre, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

• 27/11–1/12/2017. Short-course Training on Statistical Modelling: Linear Regression and Regulation. Graduate School, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

• 17/09–1/10/2017. Training Workshop on Flood and Climate Change-related Topics. Tropical Marine Science Institute. National University of Singapore, Singapore City.

• 6–14/09/2017. The 2017 Capacity Building Workshop of Satellite Remote Sensing for Southeast Asian scientists. Centre for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Taiwan.

• 14/11–2/12/2016. Treatment of bacterial samples for Gene-based Analysis and Data Analysis. School of Life Science and Technology (Suzukakedei Campus), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

• 31/08–15/10/2016. Stage de perfectionnement en techniques de l’apprentissage machine (Machine Learning with R program) pour la classification automatique des échantillons, l’ordination et la prédiction. Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité biologique, Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III), France.

• 1–11/02/2016. The Basic and Advanced Biostatistics with R program [taught by Prof. Sovan LEK, a highly qualified scientist from Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III), France]. Graduate School. Royal University of Agriculture, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

• 11/05/2015. Community Surveys through Space and Time: Testing the space-time interaction in the absence of replication (presented by Prof. Pierre LEGENDRE, a highly qualified Canadian numerical ecologist from Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada). Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Spain. He has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment in 2001, 2014, and 2015. As of May 2015, he had published 10 books and almost 300 scientific papers.

• 7–11/04/2014. Introduction to Meta-analysis and Research Synthesis in Ecology. IMAR -- Instituto do Mar (Institute of Marine Research), University of Coimbra, Portugal.

• 11–22/03/2013. Introduction to Descriptive and Inferential Statistics with SPSS Statistical Software. Josep Pallach Institute of Education Sciences, University of Girona, Spain.  

• 28/11– 9/12/2011. Introduction to River Basin Environment Assessment under Climate Change. Water Resources Research Centre, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan.

• 3/09– 3/10/2011. Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment in Erken Lake. Limnology Programme, Erken Laboratory, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• 3/04–15/05/2010. Practical Training on: 1) Analyses of Watershed Characteristics using Satellite Images, 2) Estimates of I-D-F Relationship using Empirical Approaches, and 3) Sampling Strategies to Monitor Water Quality in Rivers. Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (former FUSAGx), University of Liège, Belgium.

• 1–7/02/2009. Treatment of a Landfill Leachate. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of the Philippines (-Diliman), Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.