Nam Trung Nguyen's Biography

Nam Trung Nguyen, Professor/Director, Griffith University

Nam-Trung Nguyen received his Dip-Ing, Dr Ing and Dr Ing Habil degrees from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, in 1993, 1997 and 2004, respectively. In 1998, he was a postdoctoral research engineer in the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (University of California at Berkeley, USA). From 1999 to 2012, he was a faculty member of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Since February 2013, Dr. Nguyen has been serving as a Professor and the Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre at Griffith University. His research is focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, micro/nanomachinin technologies, micro/nanoscale science, and instrumentation for biomedical applications. He published over 260 journal papers and filed 8 US patents, of which 3 were granted. Among the books he has written, the first and second editions of the bestseller "Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics" co-authored with S. Wereley were published in 2002 and 2006, respectively. The second edition of the bestselling book "Micromixer" was published by Elsevier in 2012. Dr. Nguyen is a Fellow of ASME and a Member of IEEE.