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Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen

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  • Role(s): Fellow
    Level: Full
    Status: Active
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  • Nam-Trung Nguyen received his Dip-Ing (M. Eng.), Dr Ing (Ph. D.) and Dr Ing Habil (professorial qualification) degrees from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, in 1993, 1997 and 2004, respectively. The habilitation degree (Dr Ing Habil ) is the respected qualification for a full professorship in Germany. During his 10 year stay in Germany, he also worked for Robert Bosch GmbH, the industry leader in micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) for automotive applications. He contributed to the development of the MEMS-based fuel injection systems as well as sensing systems for pressure and mass flow rate. In 1998, he was a postdoctoral research engineer in the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (University of California at Berkeley, USA), developing the platform technology later known as micro acoustofluidics. From 1999 to 2013, he has been a faculty member of Nanyang Technological University. From 2013, he has been serving as Professor and Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre. His research is focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, micro/nanomachining technologies, micro/nanoscale science, and instrumentation for biomedical applications. He published over 500 journal papers and filed 8 patents, of which 3 were granted. Among the books he has written, the first, second and third editions of the bestseller 'Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics' were published in 2002, 2006 and 2019, respectively. His latest book 'Nanofluidics' was published in 2009. The second edition of the bestselling book 'Micromixer' was acquired and published by Elsevier in 2011. He has trained 44 PhD students, 5 of them were subsequently awarded with the prestigious ARC DECRA fellowship. Prof Nguyen is the First Runner Up of Inaugural ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Awards in Sustainable Development in 2009 and the Runner Up of ASAIHL-Scopus Young Scientist Awards in 2008. He is a Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of IEEE. The 2020 and 2021 editions of the Research Special Report of The Australian recognised Prof Nguyen as Australia’s research leader in analytical chemistry, and one of the top 17 scholars in chemical and material sciences. According to the Stanford methodology, which aims to control for confounded citation rates including over-self-citation and discipline-specific citation behaviour, his career rank is 8,115 out of the top 2% most influential scientists in the world and for the year 2021, his ranking was 3,988. As of October 2022, his works were cited over 31,000 times with an H-index of 87 (Google Scholars).