Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Quang Hung of Duy Tan University meets the standards for the title of Professor of Physics in 2024.

The State Council of Professors has just officially recognized the title of Professor and Associate Professor in 2024 for 614 teachers (including 45 Professors and 569 Associate Professors). Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Quang Hung - Director of the Institute for Fundamental and Applied Science Research (IFAS), Duy Tan University (DTU) is one of the 45 Professors recognized in 2024.

Master a research school, have influence and contribute to the scientific community

Achieving the title of Professor is the result of an extraordinary and tireless effort by each candidate in a field of profession or research expertise.

According to Professor Nguyen Quang Hung: " In addition to the general criteria required to qualify as a professor, a really important condition for candidates, especially young candidates in Physics, is to master a research school, have influence at least in their narrow research field and have clear contributions to the scientific community ."

Professor Nguyen Quang Hung received the Certificate of Qualification for the Title of Professor of Physics in 2024

With clear goals and determination to pursue his passion, Professor Nguyen Quang Hung has achieved many achievements throughout his scientific research activities, specifically:

• Member of the Physics Science Council of NAFOSTED Foundation from 2017 to present;
• Published a total of 96 scientific articles, of which the number of scientific articles published in prestigious international scientific journals in which the candidate was the main author after being recognized as Associate Professor was 35;
• Completed 4 scientific research topics sponsored by Nafosted Foundation, published 1 monograph used as training material at Duy Tan University and guided 2 PhD students to successfully defend their theses;
• Presided over 2 training programs, applied scientific and technological research into practical application at Duy Tan University.

During his work, Professor Nguyen Quang Hung has excellently received:

• Young Research Award awarded by the Vietnam Theoretical Physics Association in 2012,
• Received a letter of commendation from the Minister of Science and Technology with the note: " The article has special significance for Nuclear Physics research in Vietnam and is a source of pride for Vietnamese basic science " for a research work published in the prestigious international journal Physical Review Letters in 2017,
• Nominated twice consecutively by NAFOSTED for the main prize at the Ta Quang Buu Award in 2019 and 2020.

Previously, Mr. Nguyen Quang Hung graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Physics, majoring in Nuclear Technology from the University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi in 2003; continued to receive a Master's degree from the University of Science and worked as a full-time researcher at the Research Institute for Physics and Chemistry (RIKEN), Japan under the Asian Program Associate scholarship.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Quang Hung has worked at Duy Tan University since the end of 2015 and was officially appointed as Director of the Institute for Fundamental and Applied Science Research (IFAS) of Duy Tan University in 2017 with many highly effective training and scientific research activities along with social recognition.

Quality research streams shape strong research teams

Starting to pursue the research direction of the theory of excited nuclei structure ("Hot Nuclei") from the period of being a PhD student and after his PhD, Professor Nguyen Quang Hung opened up many useful in-depth research directions in the field of Nuclear Physics as well as later research directions in archaeology.

In the first stage in 2017, Prof. Dr. Hung and his colleagues succeeded in building a Microscopic Theoretical model that allows simultaneous description of the level density and radiation force function of hot nuclei. This theoretical model was then further developed and applied to explain the latest experimental data in the world. Following this research direction, Prof. Dr. Hung has led 4 basic research topics on Physics funded by the NAFOSTED Foundation, including a strong research group topic on " Developing a unified and microscopic theoretical model for describing nuclear structure at zero temperature, non-zero temperature and angular momenta, taking into account the exact solution of the coupling problem " in the period 2020-2023.

Next, Professor Hung expanded his research to the field of experimental nuclear physics, specifically studying the diagram of nuclear excitation levels based on the thermal neutron capture reaction from the Da Lat Nuclear Reactor. Following this research direction, the group published in prestigious international journals sets of experimental data that were conducted entirely in Vietnam, led by Vietnamese scientists. Notably, in the work published in the journal Physical Review C in 2019 (a leading prestigious journal in the field of nuclear physics), all the level diagram data of the Sm-153 nucleus passed the evaluation round by nuclear data experts and was then included in the international nuclear database NNDC (National Nuclear Data Center) managed by the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

With the research direction of Nanomaterials, specifically the application of nuclear spectrometer systems in studying structural changes and defects in materials, Prof. Dr. Hung and his colleagues have published a series of results in prestigious international journals such as Langmuir (2022), Chemical Engineering Journal (2022), ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2023), Solar RRL (2024), Small Methods (2024), ... " Our studies have provided researchers with deep structural information inside nanomaterials that many traditional methods cannot access. Accordingly, I am currently leading a strong research group project of the NAFOSTED Foundation on 'Research on structural defects and modification of nanomaterials by nuclear methods', period 2024-2028 ", said Prof. Dr. Quang Hung.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quang Hung at the VinIF Funding Signing Ceremony

Most recently, when approaching the research direction of Applying Thermoluminescence Method and Nuclear Techniques in determining the age of some archaeological relics in Vietnam, scientists of Duy Tan University and colleagues have developed an improved Thermoluminescence method based on combining field experiments with laboratory measurements and computer simulations, allowing for accurate determination of the age of some ancient architectures with heterogeneous, multi-layered and overlapping characteristics in terms of age at the Oc Eo - Ba The National Special Relic Site (An Giang). These research results have also opened up a new research direction in determining the age of ancient architectures in Vietnam and Professor Dr. Nguyen Quang Hung directly co-directed a project on " Research on the age of ancient architectures at the Oc Eo - Ba The National Special Relic Site: contributing to enhancing historical values ​​and relic conservation work " sponsored by VinIF Foundation.

The challenge for young scientists is the motivation to prove their ability.

The achievements from scientific research of many young Vietnamese scientists are making great contributions to the process of industrialization, construction and development of the country. Young scientists today also have many advantages when the fields of Basic and Experimental Scientific Research are being focused on investment and development.

" Compared to the generations of teachers we have experienced, young scientists today have a fairly favorable research environment. There are many universities and research institutes that are very interested in scientific research, they are willing to pay a relatively high salary to scientists with good research capacity. Many research funds from the grassroots level, the Ministry level, NAFOSTED, VinIF, the State level, ... are always ready to provide funding for excellent young scientists if they demonstrate their capacity.

However, in addition to the advantages, there are also challenges for young scientists when they have to compete for funding from funds in the context of many young scientists who have been trained abroad returning to the country. Finding students, master's students, and doctoral students to participate in research is also increasingly difficult, especially in basic science fields such as Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, etc. Therefore, to maintain a scientific research career, young scientists must constantly strive, always seek and learn new things, and at the same time regularly exchange academic knowledge with research centers and prestigious scientists in the world. Scientists should also pay attention to interdisciplinary research because it is very necessary to be able to solve big problems ," shared Prof. Dr. Quang Hung.

Having worked at Duy Tan University for exactly 9 years, Professor Quang Hung has many things to be proud of: " What I am most proud of is that I can research anything I like and the University is always ready to provide the best and fastest support for my research work, from time, experimental facilities to recruiting researchers and PhD and post-doc students to work together on my research projects ."

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