Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh was elected as an academician of the European Academy and became the first Vietnamese to join this prestigious scientific organization.
Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh attended the IUPAC “Outstanding Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering 2023” award ceremony in August 2023 in The Hague, the Netherlands. (Photo: VNA)
At the end of April 2024, Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, working at University College London - UCL (UK), was officially elected as an Academician of the European Academy (Academia Europaea - AE) and became the first Vietnamese person to join this prestigious scientific organization.
As a member of 4 scientific associations in the UK, including the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2010, this is the first time Professor Thanh has become an academician of an international academy like AE.
As a new member (2024), Professor Thanh is honored to be invited by the European Academy to attend and present his research in a thematic session at the Academy's 2024 Annual Meeting in Wroclaw, Poland in November 2024 and to attend a banquet with the President of Poland.
Founded in 1988, the European Academy is a non-profit organisation that operates as a pan-European science and humanities academy.
The Academy's membership includes more than 5,500 renowned scientists, from European countries and across a wide range of disciplines, nationalities and geographical areas, including 72 Nobel laureates.
The Institute's objectives are to promote scientific research and disseminate outstanding academic achievements in the humanities, law, economics, social and political sciences, mathematics, medicine and other natural sciences and technology around the world.
In addition, one of the Institute's core missions is to promote the advancement of inclusive public education for all ages in the sciences.
To become a member of the European Academy, candidates must be nominated by a group of prestigious scientists, then their academic records and scientific research achievements are carefully reviewed by the Academy and finally the election is carried out by the Academy's Scientific Council.
Speaking to VNA reporters in the UK, Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh shared her joy and pride at being elected as an Academician of the European Academy, considering this a recognition of her research and teaching achievements and the continuous efforts and contributions of her and her colleagues and collaborators in disseminating knowledge and passion for scientific research to the community.
“I feel honoured to be elected a member of the European Academy,” she said. “It is wonderful to be surrounded by great minds not only in the natural sciences and technology, mathematics and medicine, but also in the humanities, law, economics, social sciences and political and social sciences. We need a collective effort to address the enormous international challenges we face today and in the future.”
For Vietnam, she hopes this event will contribute to enhancing the reputation of Vietnamese intellectuals and scientists in the world, encouraging them to confidently integrate with the world's advanced science.
Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh is one of the famous Vietnamese intellectuals in the international scientific community, the first Vietnamese professor at UCL University since 2013.
She graduated with a degree in chemistry from Hanoi National University in 1992; then received an international research scholarship in the Netherlands and the UK, where she obtained her PhD in 1998.
With a long history of scientific research achievements, Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh has won many prestigious awards from prestigious scientific associations and academies around the world, including: "Outstanding Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering 2023" Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Thomas Graham Award 2023 from the SCI/RSC association including the Chemical Industry Association and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
In 2022, Professor Thanh was awarded the Interdisciplinary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his important contributions to fundamental research on chemical synthesis and physical property analysis of plasmonic and magnetic nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
In 2019, she was honored to receive the prestigious award "The Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2019" from the UK Academy of Sciences for her achievements in the field of nanomaterials.
In November 2022, she was also honored to give a lecture at the long-standing and world-famous scientific lecture program Friday Evening Discourses (FED) of the Royal Institution of the United Kingdom (Ri). Her lecture has now attracted 25,000 views.
She also has many research cooperation activities with domestic agencies, organizations and research institutes to realize the aspiration of bringing Vietnamese scientists to integrate with the world.
On November 2, 2014, she decided to establish the Vietnam Young Academy (VYA), with the mission of connecting and supporting Vietnamese scientists in the early stages of their careers to have the opportunity to exchange and discuss important national and global topics, contributing ideas to educational innovation and policy development for Vietnam.
In 2019, VYA organized the 4th World Conference of Young Academies (WWMYA) in Da Nang with the support of the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The outstanding result of the Workshop was the adoption of a Joint Statement on the guiding principles for the establishment of the Young Academy, which was then officially announced at the World Science Forum (WSF) in November 2019 in Budapest, Hungary, attended by more than a thousand scientists, scholars, policy makers, industrialists and science communicators.
Notably, the Academy in the UK with the support of the Academies and the British Government was also established in 2022, 8 years after VYA.
Besides, Professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh also has many community activities, inspiring children to pursue their passion for scientific research.
She used the Rosalind Franklin Prize money to organise an Outdoor Science Camp at PGL Liddington Adventure Centre in Wiltshire, England, to inspire and motivate students from Years 8-10 from low-income families in London to choose science and maths (STEM) subjects for their GCSEs in April 2023.
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