Professor Nguyen is the Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and leads a research group of over 20 postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. Research themes of the group include micro- and nanofluidics; micro- and nanofabrication; and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).
Professor Nguyen received his Dip-Ing, Dr Ing, and Dr Ing Habil 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 MEMS-based fuel injection systems as well as sensing systems for pressure and mass flow rate. In 1998, he was a postdoctoral research engineer at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (University of California at Berkeley, USA). Prof Nguyen was the First Runner Up of the Inaugural ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Awards in Sustainable Development in 2009 and the Runner Up of the ASAIHL-Scopus Young Scientist Awards in 2008. He is a Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of IEEE. In 2012, he was a SMART Faculty Fellow at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He is also an Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
