Vietnam Science & Economy Group

Dr Hoang Long Chu is an associate professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University. He is interested in creating applied models to support policy making and policy evaluation processes related to biosecurity and disease controls; extraction strategies for water and fishery resources; structural reforms in developing countries; and green agriculture, low-carbon economy and environmental issues. He has won several coveted awards, including the Eureka prize, Australia’s most prestigious science prize for a study of water resource management. 

Dr Chung Tran is a macroeconomist and currently located at the Research School of Economics, Australian National University. His research interests are in the area of Macro/Public Finance and Development Economics. Much of his current work (research and teaching) contributes to advancing the understanding of macroeconomic policy, taxation and redistribution policy. Specific research topics have included: social security, health insurance, taxation, fiscal policy, fiscal sustainability, devaluation and sovereign debt.

Dr Kim Khoi Dang is an economist of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Before joining the current organization, he was the Deputy Director of the Institute of Agricultural Market and Institution Research (Vietnam University of Agriculture), and the Director of the Center for Agricultural Policy (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam).  Dr. Dang has paid attention to a wide range of research topics, including environment and natural resources management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, international integration and trade liberalization, market and value chain development, farmer organization and institutions, and agricultural growth and rural transformation.  He is particularly interested in quantitative studies using large-sample surveys, statistics, econometrics, and economic modeling. Dr Dang has won several coveted awards, including the ACIAR endeavour fellowship.

Dr Thang Do is a Research Fellow in the Zero-Carbon Energy for Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge Program in the Resources, Environment and Development program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Dr. Do has served as Deputy Director General of International Cooperation (Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment); as the Global Environment Facility’s Operational Focal Point for Vietnam; as the Chair of the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change; and the Vietnam national focal point of the ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities and Water Environment Partnership for Asia. He is currently a convener and manager for the United Nations Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership Roundtable Series. His research interests are in the areas of energy transition, climate change, environmental policy, Mekong Water-Energy nexus, sustainable cities, economic instruments for environmental management in the developing country context. 

Dr Thai Nguyen is a Data Analyst at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Agri-Technology, Australian National University. Before joining ANU, Dr Nguyen was an economic researcher at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interest is energy economics, including household welfare impacts of environmental taxes, cost-benefit analysis of coal-fired power generation, and energy-GDP nexus.

Dr Hai Nguyen is a researcher of Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, a research team under the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA). Her research interest is environmental economics, climate change mitigation, payment for ecosystem services, and landscape restoration. Specifically, she has extensive expertise in  carbon models, carbon measurements, and carbon certification standards for the massive-scale restoration projects in Africa and South-East Asia. 

Dr Phuc Xuan To is a research fellow at Resources, Environment and Development Group of Crawford School of Public Policy (ANU). Phuc’s areas of expertise include resource governance, environmental change, and development studies. From 2007 to 2009, Phuc was a postdoc fellow at Anthropology Department of University of Toronto (Canada), where he engaged in a large-scale research project funded by the Canadian Research Council examining the agrarian change in Southeast Asian countries. Between 2012 and 2017 Phuc worked on an ARC research project examining how forest users in the Mekong countries respond to the complex local, national, and regional dimensions of the emerging market for forest carbon. Since 2018, Phuc has worked on a new ARC Discovery project examining how nature-society ruptures generate local and civil society responses, and how these responses affect states in the region. Since 2009, Phuc has been working with Forest Trends as a senior policy analyst. His work has been focusing on the dynamics of market-based instruments, forest-risk commodities, global legality regulations, land governance, state authority and legitimacy. Phuc has been providing policy advice to the EU, the US Departments of Justice, of Forest Service, Asian Development Bank, and the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment.

Dr Hieu Nguyen received his PhD in Engineering from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2016. In 2017, he was a visiting scientist at the United States' National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Currently, he is a senior research fellow and senior lecturer at the ANU, leading his research team. He also serves as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. The central idea of Dr Nguyen’s research is to advance solar energy technologies through knowledge and scientific discoveries and technological inventions. Many of his techniques have been being used by many research groups in the world. He has received several College and University Awards for Excellence in Education, the 2021 Vietnam Golden Globe Awards in Science and Technology, and was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Faces of Vietnam 2021. 

MA Lien Le is the Vice Director of the Centre for Agricultural Policy (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam) and PhD student at the University of New England, Australia.  Her research interest is economic transformation, particularly agricultural transformation under the impact of climate change and resource constraints focusing on behaviors of different actors, institutional arrangement and commodity value chains in transformation process.

Dr Trang Be  is a data analyst at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Before joining the Institute, Dr Be worked as a researcher at the Central Institute for Economic Management in Vietnam. Her research specialises in political connections, corruption, innovation, firm survival and performance, and the political economy of small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam. She obtained a PhD in economics from the Australian National University in 2021.

Dr Khuong Le is the Adjunct Professor at the School of Design & Built Environment, Faculty of Art & Design- University of Canberra, and the Dean of the Department of Structure and Construction Materials, University of Transport Technology, Vietnam. His main research area focuses on structural and digital Engineering, Data Science, and BIM (Building Information Modeling). Dr Le obtained his PhD in civil engineering and advanced structural analysis in France in 2015. 

MA Hang Le is  a Research Analytics Officer at the University of Canberra and a PhD Candidate at RMIT, Australia. Hang Le has extensive working and research experience in education areas in Australia and Vietnam. Before joining the University of Canberra, she taught at the Banking Academy (Vietnam) and worked as a commercial analyst at the Sentinel group (Australia). Hang Le holds Bachelor of Economics and Master of Finance Management at the Australian National University. 

MA Ngoc Mai La is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Business, Government and Law - the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on economic transformation, labour resources and the impacts of information technology and education on income in Vietnam. Before joinining the University of Canberra, Ngoc Mai was a lecturer at the National Economics University of Vietnam. 

 Dr Hai Thanh Nguyen is an economic researcher at the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) and PhD candidate at the Australian National University, Australia. Her research focuses on the liberalization reforms of Vietnam, particularly the impact of ownership reforms and FDI attraction policies on manufacturing productivity. Hai Thanh Nguyen is also interested in green growth and the policies to attract private investment into green growth in Vietnam. Hai Thanh was a recipient of the Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship and the Australian Development Scholarship.

Dr Phan Le is an economist at the Central Institute for Economic Management of Vietnam (CIEM) and PhD candidate at the Australian National University, Australia. His research focuses on the sources of productivity growth, industrial and trade policies, interregional linkage, digital transformation and economic development. Phan was a recipient of the Australian Awards Scholarship.

Associate Professor Hoa Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer and an applied economist within the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, the Crawford School of Public Policy. She is interested in analyzing economic policies in health, food security, biological security, and issues related to climate change, inequality and poverty. Her research has been published in the world’s leading international journals, including Political Analysis, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, Economic Modelling and World Development. Hoa received her PhD from ANU. Before joining the Crawford School, she was a researcher at the Centre for Analysis and Forecasting, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. 

Dr Tai Hoang is a researcher at the Biological Data Science Institute, Australian National University. His research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, and biomedical data science. Recently, he has focused on developing deep transfer learning frameworks to advance cancer precision medicine, predicting which cancer treatments would be suitable for individual patient based on their transcriptomics and histopathology images. Prior to joining the ANU, he conducted postdoctoral training at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2016 to 2020.

Dr Toan Nguyen is a Research Fellow at the Development Policy Centre and the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics (ACDE), Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Prior to this position, he held academic appointments in the University of Queensland and Curtin University, and was a software engineer before that. His primary research interests are in labor economics (migration) and family economics. He has secured several grants and has been serving as an independent/lead consultant for international organizations such as French Development Agency (AFD).

Dr. Minh Bui is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Australian National University. He is the leader of Computational Phylogenomics Lab, with the motto of enabling evolutionary research in the genomic era. Minh leads an international team that has developed the widely used phylogenetics software IQ-TREE (http://www.iqtree.org), currently funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. He is the 2021 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science) and the 2019 Australian Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology. Minh obtained his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Vietnam National University in 2001, M.Sc. in Applied Computer Science from the University of Freiburg, Germany in 2005, and Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Vienna, Austria in 2009. 

Dr Nhan Le is a Senior Lecturer of Finance, at the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics,  Australian National University. Nhan's research interests include geography economics, corporate finance, banking and labor economics. Nhan's current works investigate the impact of local housing markets on the stability of banking sector; the effect of litigation on firm delisting rate; or the effect of bank deregulation on labor productivity of stagnant industries. Before moving to Canberra, Nhan was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Nhan graduated Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA . She received Master of Financial Management from the University Queensland and B.A degree in Finance from the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Before joining an academic career, Nhan held various positions in corporate environment including an Investment Officer at Mekong Capital, a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young and an instructor at a corporate training center of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Dr Quynh Nguyen is a senior lecturer of international political economy at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on how socio-economic and ecological impacts of economic globalization shape citizens’ political attitudes and policy preferences. Quynh has comprehensive experience in implementing large-scale surveys and survey experiments in Vietnam and other countries. She has held appointments with various international development organizations, including the World Bank and the German Development Institute. Quynh has also been a contributor to the Vietnam Provincial and Competitiveness Index report. 

Dr Quoc Anh Ho is a research officer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University. His research focuses on foreign direct investment; international trade; labour productivity growth; economic structural change; and climate change. Before joining the ANU, he was an official at the Foreign Investment Agency, Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam. Quoc Anh was a recipient of the Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship and the Australian Development Scholarship.

Dr Nhat Mai Nguyen is the Hub Manager and Research Associate at Water Justice Hub, Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University. Her research interests are in international trade; food safety; food security; agricultural economics; political science; and water justice. Before joining the ANU, she was an official at the Department of Service Economy, Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam. Mai was a recipient of the Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship and the Australian Development Scholarship.