Nguyen Dinh Duc. Nguyen Dinh Duc (Nguyễn Đình Đức) (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.

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)..

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 2019 -present, and the top 100 – at 74th in the rankings of leading scientists globally in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2024.

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
 11/2024 -present: Member of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Full Profossor of the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University-Hanoi. The President of the Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges established the Vietnam Higher Education Quality Assurance Network Club (since 11/2023 -present).
 Vice President of Vietnamese Association of Mechanics (2017–present).
 Currently, 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)..
 05/2023– 11/2024: Prof. Dr. Sci. Nguyen Dinh Duc was the Chairman of the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University-Hanoi. 
 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).

Publications and research areas of interest

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 – USSR, 2000) 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).

 Nguyen Dinh Duc, The sphero-fibers composite with space structure, URSS Publishing House, Moscow, Russia, 2000, 242 pages (Monograph, in Russian).
 Nguyen Hoa Thinh, Nguyen Dinh Duc, Composite materials – Mechanics and Technology of manufacture, Science and Technics Publishing House, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2002, 364 pages (Monograph).
 Nguyen Dinh Duc, Dao Nhu Mai, Strength of the Materials and Structures. Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, 2012, 292 pages (Text book).
 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).
 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).
 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 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 a outstanding Russian scientist – 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 – 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 research group, 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.

He also is the Founder of training programs for Engineers, Master and PhD in Civil Engineerring 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. 

Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc 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 – 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. 

His main research of interests:

 Composite with space structure (composite 3D, 4D)
 Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamic of advanced Structures and composite (nano composite; FGMs; FG CNTRC, 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
 Magneto-piezoelectric composite
 Three phase composite and nanocomposite
 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 Computational mechanics
 Optimization in Engineering 
 Application AI in Engineering and Technology

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 the structures
 Theory of Elastic and Plastic
 Theory of Plates and Shells
 New materials and advanced material in Engineering
 Optimization of Composite Materials and Structures.
 Al in Engineering

References

Living people
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Year of birth missing (living people)