Nguyen Dinh Duc (Nguyá» n ÃÂình ÃÂức) (born 1963) is a Vietnamese scientist and currently serves as full professor, the member of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (2024-2029), former first the Chairman of the University Council at the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He has made significant contributions in the field of new materials, particularly composites, Advanced Materials and Structures,.
Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc is the Vice-president of the Vietnamese Association of Mechanics and President of the Network Club for Ensuring the Quality of Higher Education in Vietnam. He is known for his contributions in the field of new materials and as an influential scientist in the international community; He has been a mentor to many accomplished Vietnamese students over the years.
Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc also is an excellent education expert. He had proposed many policies to innovate the Vietnamese higher education system and VNU Hanoi to integrate with international standards.
Nguyen Dinh Duc was born in his maternal hometown of Lai Xa village, Kim Chung commune, Hoai Duc district (former Ha Tay province), now part of Hanoi. Lai Xa is known as a land of learning and is the birthplace of Vietnam's first Minister of Education, Professor Nguyen Van Huyen, and renowned astronomer Professor Nguyen Quang Rieu. The region is also famous for its traditional photography trade, with Khanh Ky being honored as the ancestor of Lai Xa photography. He once went to France to open a photography studio and taught photography to Ho Chi Minh during his time in Paris. His paternal hometown is Hue Tri village, An Phu commune, Kinh Mon district, Hai Duong province.
His childhood and schooling years are closely associated with Yen Bai, a mountainous town in the northwest. He is a former specialized mathematics student in the first class of Hoang Lien Son province (1977âÂÂ1980).
Nguyen Dinh Duc graduated from Hanoi National University in 1984, PhD at Moscow State University in 1990 and Dr.Sci (Dr. habilitation) at the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997. Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences since 1999.
Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc is a distinguished figure in the scientific community, who has had significant influence internationally. According to the worldwide ranking of the most influential scientists published by the PloS Biology journal, Prof. Nguyen Dinh Duc is Vietnamese scientist working in Vietnam to make the top 10,000 scientists with the most influential index in the world for many consecutive years since 2019âÂÂpresent, and the top 100 â at 74th in the rankings of leading scientists globally in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2024, and rise to top 51st ranking in the world in this field by 2025 ,.
Renowned for his significant contributions to science both within Vietnam and internationally, Professor Duc's impact extends beyond research to education. As an esteemed educator, he has played a vital role in shaping the scientific landscape by fostering and leading the development of numerous generations of students, graduate students, and researchers. His dedication has not only laid the groundwork for scientific progress but has also pave a wave for many generations of students, graduate students, and researchers to the global world scientific map.
For the outstanding achievements in education, research, training young generations, and making significant contributions to the reform of higher education in Vietnam and the development of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has been awarded the Third-Class Labor Medal (2016) and the Second-Class Labor Medal (2022) by the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He was also recognized by the Ministry of Education and Training as an outstanding educator on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the education sector (1982âÂÂ2022) and honored as an outstanding Vietnamese scientist in science and technology in 2024.
Previously, in 1999, at the age of 36, Professor Duc N.D he was elected as an Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He also served as a member of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front for its fifth term (1999âÂÂ2004) and was an official delegate at the 6th National Congress of Heroes and Emulation Soldiers held in Hanoi in 2000.
From 2019 to the present, Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has been consistently ranked among the top 10,000 most influential scientists worldwide for seven consecutive years, and in 2025, he advanced to the top 51 globally in the field of Engineering.
Awards:
- Third Prize of Vietnam Talent in 2028 for the project "Research and manufacture of inertial navigation system for controlled vehicles".
- Award "Lecturer of Hanoi National University" in 2022, Award "For the cause of education" of IMG Group in 2022.
- Bao Son Award in 2024 in the field of Engineering - Technology for the project "Advanced 3-phase composite materials applied in Engineering and Technology".
Professor N.D. Duc has published over 400 international and national articles as well as scientific works, including over 250 research papers in ISI listed international journals. He has written 06 textbooks and monographs in Vietnamese, Russian and English - using for the undergraduate and graduate programs. One monograph about 3D, 4D composites had been published in Russian (Russian Publisher â USSR, 2000) and two other â about static and dynamic stability of FGMs structures and nonlinear vibration of auxetic plates and shells â have been published in English (VNU, Hanoi Publisher, 2014, 2021).
He is a scientist in Vietnam who is pioneering in the study of carbon-carbon composite materials with space structure 3Dm, 4Dm and functionally graded composite materials (FGM), which are a new material generation, highly durable and heat resistant, used extensively in aerospace structures, missiles, details of the nuclear power plant, machine-building industry, etc. Prof. Duc has built up an academic school in Vietnam of thought using analytical methods to solve many problems related to the determination of mechanical-physical properties of materials, the static and dynamic stability of composite plates and shells, and other most recently as piezoelectric composite, functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite (FG CNTRC), auxetic materials, etc.
Analytical nonlinear formulation allowing the determination of the elastic modulus for nanocomposite materials reinforced by nanoparticles has been known to scientific communities by international publications associated with the name of Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc and an outstanding Russian scientist â Professor Vanin G.A.
In recent years, green energy and renewable energy are a main concern of the world and Vietnam. He has approached this direction at the VNU, Hanoi â University of Engineering and Technology (UET), to add nanoparticles properly to improve the mechanical-physical properties of nanocomposite polymers, such as in fabricating OLED organic photovoltaic materials, or in improving the energy conversion performance of solar panels, and in incorporating interdisciplinary physics-mechanics to study the stability of this three phase composite structure (including polymer matrix, reinforcement fiber and nanoparticles) under different loads. The research outcomes of Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc and his colleagues in the field of static and dynamic stability of FGM plates and shells, nanocomposite, composite structures with cracks, green and renewable energy have not only been published in international ISI journals, but Nguyen Dinh Duc have also been honored as "invited speaker" at the plenary sessions of many international conferences.
Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has built up the strong research group and has pioneered a school of thought on Advanced Materials and Structures at Vietnam National University Hanoi (VNU Hanoi) that meets international standards and is highly regarded by the scientific community both domestically and internationally. The formation and development of this research group model serve as a valuable lesson that can be replicated at other universities in Vietnam.
He had established the new Laboratory of the Advanced Materials and Structures in Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He also established a new school - the Faculty of Civil Engineering, UET and become the first Dean of this Faculty, attracted young scientists from many domestic and foreign universities to join his research group, published many excellent "100% made in Vietnam" research papers in prestigious international ISI journals; trained many gifted students and talented PhD degree holders in the field of Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Civil Engineering and application AI in Engineering for Vietnam.
Professor Duc also is the Founder of training programs for Engineers, Master and PhD in Civil Engineering in the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) and Vietnam Japan University (VJU); the Founder of training programs for Engineers in the automation and information technology in the International School,VNU Hanoi.
In recent years, Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has taken the lead in establishing and currently leading an interdisciplinary research group applying artificial intelligence (AI) in engineering at Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
He is a member of Editorial Board of 10 ISI journals, a reviewer for 75 international prestigious scientific journals such as Composite Structures, International journal of Mechanical Sciences, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Journal of Computational Materials Sciences, Journal of Composite Materials, Journal of Vibration and Control, Journal of Composite Part B: Engineering and so on.
The launching of new majors, the establishment of Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Structures (2015), Faculty of Civil Engineering in the University of Engineering and Technology (2018), Department of Infrastructure Engineering in Vietnam Japan University (2016) and the field of the automation and information technology in the International School,VNU Hanoi (2020) - Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has the significant contributions to the development and growth of the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam â Japan University, International School and Vietnam National University, Hanoi. It is also the significant contribution and pioneering of Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc to the sustainable development of Vietnam's mechanics, the development of Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering majors in VNU Hanoi, application of artificial intelligence in engineering in Vietnam and training the country's well qualified human resources in these areas.
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His main lectures using for undergraduate and graduate programs in VNU, Hanoi: