Van Ha Nguyen obtained his BSc degree (Honors Program) in Chemistry from Hanoi University of Science (HUS-VNU) in 2004. He joined the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry HUS-VNU as a lecturer in 2006. After serving for a few years, he took a leave of absence to pursue his PhD degree at the National University of Singapore, working under the supervision of Professor Yip Hon Kay, John. In 2015, he successfully defended his PhD thesis and joined Prof. Huynh Han Vinh's Carbene and Organometallic Synthesis laboratory for his postdoctoral fellowship. He worked there for almost three years before returning to HUS-VNU.