Date & Time: Tuesday, December 23, 2025 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM VNT
Venue: I207 – DaVinci Meeting Room, I Building, VinUni
About the Talk:
- Microfluidics is the science and technology of handling and analysing liquid sample in micro- and nanoscale.
- The main drivers of this technology in the last two decades were lab on a chip (LOC) and organ on a chip (OOC) for point-of-care diagnosis and personalised precision medicine, and more recently, wearable and implantable devices.
- This talk presents some of his past works in microfluidics to set the context and some recent results in the field of micro elastofluidics, utilising flexibility and elasticity from molecular scale to device scale for personalised medicine.
About the Speaker:
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.
- From 1992 to 1993, he worked at Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany), developing silicon-based sensors and actuators for automotive applications.
- From 1997 to 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 was a faculty member and director of the clean room facility at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2013 to 2023, he served a Professor and the Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre at Griffith University, Australia, growing its annual research income from A$1 M to A$6 M during his tenure.
- From 2024 to date, he is an Australian Laureate Fellow, holding Australia’s most prestigious five-year A$4 M research award. He has been one the pioneers of the field of microfluidics and currently ranked worldwide as #8 in microfluidics, #2 in nanofluidics (ScholarGPS) and #3448 across all fields (“Stanford list”).
- From 2020, he has been the Australian research leader in Analytical Chemistry for 5 continuous years. In 2024, he was honoured with Sir George Julius Medal by Engineers Australia.
He has been a fellow of ASME and senior member of IEEE. His research is focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, micro- nanomachining, micro/nanoscale science, and instrumentation for biomedical applications. 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.
