Nguyen Dinh Duc

Nguyen Dinh Duc
Born	Hanoi, Vietnam
Scientific career
Institutions	Chairman of the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University – Professor at Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Nguyen Dinh Duc (Nguyễn Đình Đức) (born 1963) is a Vietnamese scientist and currently serves as 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.

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. Furthermore, he has been a mentor to many accomplished Vietnamese students over the years.

Biography

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 (1977–1980).

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 was among two Vietnamese scientists working in Vietnam to make the top 10,000 for five consecutive years since 2019, and the top 100 – at 85th in the rankings of leading scientists globally in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2023.

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.

Work history

• 05/2023–present: Prof. Dr. Sci. Nguyen Dinh Duc is Chairman of the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University-Hanoi. President of the Vietnam Higher Education Quality Assurance Network Club.
• Vice President of Vietnamese Association of Mechanics (2017–present).
• Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc also is the Head of Advanced Materials and Structures Laboratory, the Dean of Faculty Civil Engineering – University of Engineering and Technology (VNU, Hanoi), the Program Director of Infrastructure Engineering, Vietnam Japan University (VJU).
• October 2012– 5/2023: Director of Academic Affairs (Undergraduate and Postgraduate) Department of Vietnam National University – Hanoi.
• November 2008 – September 2012: Vice President of University of Engineering and Technology – Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
• February 2005 – November 2008: Director of Science and Technology Department, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU).
• October 2004 – February 2005: Vice Director of Science and Technology Department, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU).
• March 2004 – September 2004: Vice-director of Academic Affairs Department, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU).

At the end of 2023, the Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges established the Vietnam Higher Education Quality Assurance Network Club, and Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc was elected the President.

Publications and research areas of interest

Professor N.D. Duc has published over 350 international and national articles as well as scientific works, including over 200 research papers in ISI listed international journals. He has written 06 textbooks and monographs using for the undergraduate and graduate programs, in particular, one monograph about 3D, 4D composites had been published in Russian (Russian Publisher – USSR, 2002) and two other – about static and dynamic stability of FGMs structures and nonlinear vibration of auxetic plates and shells – have been published in English (VNU, Hanoi Publisher, 2014, 2021).

1. Nguyen Dinh Duc, The sphero-fibers composite with space structure, URSS Publishing House, Moscow, Russia, 2000, 242 pages (Monograph, in Russian).
2. Nguyen Hoa Thinh, Nguyen Dinh Duc, Composite materials – Mechanics and Technology of manufacture, Science and Technics Publishing House, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2002, 364 pages (Monograph).
3. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Dao Nhu Mai, Strength of the Materials and Structures. Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, 2012, 292 pages (Text book).
4. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Stability of Functionally Graded Plates and Shells. Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, 2014, 724 pages (Monograph, in English).
5. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Tran Quoc Quan, Pham Hong Cong. Nonlinear Vibration of Auxetic Plates and Shells. Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, 2021, 376 pages (Monograph, in English).
6. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Vu Thi Thuy Anh. Mechanics of Deformed Solid. Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, 2022, 374 pages (Text book).

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 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 Nguyễn Đình Đức and a Russian scientist – Professor Vanin.

In recent years, green energy and renewable energy are a main concern of the world and Vietnam. He has approached this direction and coordinated with the Physics group at the VNU, Hanoi – University of Engineering and Technology 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 Nguyễn Đình Đức 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 many international conferences.

Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has built up the research group, established the new Laboratory of The Advanced Materials and Structures in Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He also established a new school of the Department of Technology in Civil Engineering and Transportation and become the first Dean of this department, 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 and Civil Engineering for Vietnam.

He also is the Founder of training programs for Engineers of Technology in Civil and Transportation Engineering (in University of Engineering and Technology) and for Masters in Infrastructure Engineering (in Vietnam Japan University). He has been a reviewer for 70 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 and Faculty of Technology in Civil Engineering and Transportation in University of Engineering and Technology, Department of Infrastructure Engineering in Vietnam Japan University of Nguyen Dinh Duc have the contribution to the development and growth of the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam – Japan University and Vietnam National University, Hanoi. It is also the contribution of Nguyen Dinh Duc to the sustainable development of Vietnam's mechanics, the development of Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering majors in Vietnam and training the country's well qualified human resources in these areas.

His main research of interests:

• Composite with space structure (Carbon-carbon composite 3D, 4D)
• Dynamic and Vibration of Advanced Structures and Mechanics of composite materials (nano composite; FGMs; Auxetic materials and structures,...)
• Nonlinear stability of composite plates and shells
• Composite structures with dynamic crack propagation
• Constructions and composite structures subjected to special loads
• Piezoelectric composite and auxetic materials
• Three phase composite and nanocomposite polymer
• Advanced materials and structures in Engineering
• Nanocomposite and advanced materials in new energy and in renewable energy
• Mechanical problems related to climate change
• Applied Mathematics and Applied Mechanics
• Optimization and application AI in Engineering.

His main lectures using for undergraduate and graduate programs in VNU, Hanoi:

• Continuum Mechanics
• Theoretical Mechanics
• Mechanics of Deformed Solid
• Buckling, vibration and dynamic response of FGM plate and shells
• Mechanics of Composite Materials and Composite Structures
• Strength of Material and Structures
• Static and dynamic stability of composite plates and shells
• Theory of Elastic and Plastic
• Theory of Plates and Shells
• New materials and advanced material technology
• Application of Al in Engineering
• Optimization of Composite Materials and Structures.