Dr Tuan Nguyen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne (2019), Master of Engineering degree from Sejong University (2015), and Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Bach Khao University-Ho Chi Minh (2012).

Dr Nguyen is the recipient of the highly competitive and prestigious ARC DECRA award in 2023, Victorian Fellowship in 2022 and Melbourne Post Doctoral Fellowship in 2021. His research is at the forefront of renewable energy infrastructure, sustainable construction material, and advance computational modelling.

With the combination fo experiments, numerical modelling, and data-driven analysis, Dr Nguyen's research aims to provide better understanding in (and thereby improving) the performance, sustainability and resilience of buildings and infrastructure. His work focuses on the following areas:

Developing, testing and implementing practical solutions for low-carbon, sustainable concrete.
Conducting multiple-disciplinary research on renewable energy infrastructure with the current focus of concrete thermal energy storage (funded by ARC DECRA) and assessment of energy storage systems in buildings.
Developing and implementing physics-based and/or data-driven modelling tools to support the research in aforementioned points.

Dr Nguyen has published 46 referred journal articles with more than 80% being in the top 10% journals. His research outputs have not only garnered significant impart but also received numerous awards and recognition, including 2 Best Paper Awards, 6 Highly Cited Papers and 4 Most Cited Papers.Since obtaining is PhD, he has been instrumental in securing 18 research grants, accumulating over $7.0M in funding. This includes contributions to two ARC Linkage projects and a Cooperative Research Centres Projects.

Dr Nguyen has also demonstrated his ability in securing research funding as an independent researcher. Of the 18 successful research grants, he was the first CI for nine grants, accumulating a total of $1.1M in funding.

For prospective PhD students: If you are interested in applying for a PhD project, please send me (tuan.nguyen@unimelb.edu.au) an email with your CV, undergraduate and postgraduate transcript, and a short (2-4 pages) research proposal explaining the project you are interested in persuing under my supervision. Note I am not able to reply to all emails due to large number of PhD requests.

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