Associate Professor Phan Thanh An was born on March 24, 1969 in Hung Chinh ward, Vinh city (old), Nghe An province. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Computational Sciences , University of Technology - Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City.

He was the only candidate for Professor of Mathematics in 2025. In 1999, he was awarded a PhD in Mathematics, specializing in Analysis at Vinh Pedagogical University (now Vinh University). After successfully defending his doctoral thesis in 1999, he continued to work at the Faculty of Mathematics until March 2000.

Since March 2000, he has worked at the Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. During the period 2013-2020, he held the position of Head of the Department of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. From December 2020 to June 2025, he was a senior researcher and senior lecturer (from December 24, 2022).

Since December 2020, he has been working at the University of Technology - Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, as a lecturer at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Applied Sciences. Since December 2021, he has been the Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Computational Sciences of the university.

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Associate Professor Phan Thanh An.

In 2009, he was recognized by the State Council of Professors as meeting the standards of Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Associate Professor Phan Thanh An has many years of international teaching experience, having worked at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) for 5 years (2009-2014) and taught in English at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) for 2 years (2017-2019). During this time, he guided 2 PhD students to successfully defend their theses at the Institute of Advanced Technology (IST), University of Lisbon (2010-2015).

He has a C-level English certificate issued by Hanoi University of Foreign Languages, a pronunciation certificate issued by Apollo Education & Training and a Writing Success - Advanced Level certificate, qualified to teach entirely in English.

Associate Professor Phan Thanh An has guided 6 PhD students to successfully defend their theses; completed 6 scientific research topics (2 at the ministerial level, 2 at the grassroots level, 2 at other levels); published 50 scientific articles, of which 45 were published in prestigious international journals (ISI, Scopus), many of which are in the Q1 group - top 25% of the world's leading journals.

He has been granted 2 patents for inventions and utility solutions and published 2 monographs, including 1 from a prestigious international publisher.

In particular, he is the head of two research topics of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), including: Solving geometric shortest path problems by an optimization method (2016); Optimization Approaches for Computing Geometric Shortest Constrained Paths on Terrains (2018).

His scientific publications are all in prestigious international journals, demonstrating outstanding research and international publication capacity in the fields of Applied Mathematics, Optimization and Computational Geometry.

During more than 34 years of teaching and research, Associate Professor Dr. Phan Thanh An has always been diligent, dedicated to his work, quietly contributing to science. He rarely talks about himself, always letting his works and research results speak for him.

Even in his application for professorship, he showed humility and honesty. His entire writing was only encapsulated in a short commitment: All scientific data, topics and published works are accurate and honest, and if there are any errors, he will be responsible before the law.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/ung-vien-giao-su-toan-duy-nhat-tung-giang-day-tai-bo-dao-nha-va-brazil-2452090.html