Date of birth: 1953

 Education:

Ph.D., Hanoi Univeristy of Mining and Geology, 1991

Specialization: Mineral resources

Academic position

·                 Director, Institute for Environment and Resources, since 2004

·            Vice - Director, Institute for Environment and Resources, 2002 – 2003

·                 Dean of Faculty of Geology & Petroleum, Univ. of Technology, 1997 – 2002

·                 Head of Department of Geology & Environment,  Faculty of Geology & Petroleum, Univ.  of Technology, 1995 - 2002

RESEARCH:

·                    Coastal wetland management

·                    Applying geoinformatics in environment management

·                    Environmental protection in mining and petroleum industry.

 AcadEmiC ACTIVITY

·             Member of VNU-HCMC Committee.

·         Member of Steering Committee of Core University Progam ( Cooperation Program between Japanese Universities and Vietnamse Universities in Research on Environment), Since 1999.

·             Member of Earth Science Committee - National Project for Natural Research,                                          

        Since 2001

·         Coordinator of EU-EMMC Project (European Master in Modelisation of Consortium, supported by Asia IT&C Programme, University  of Technology, 2001 – 2003. 

·             Member of Editorial Board of some scientific journals :

          + Journal of Economic Geology ( ISSN: 0868-393X) ( Since 1997 - now)

          +Journal of the Sciences of Earth ( ISSN 0886-7187)  ( Since 2001).

 ·       Former Deputy Director of Center for DITAGIS ( Development  Information Technology Analysis for  GIS), University  of Technology , 1994 – 1995