Phung Thi Viet Bac, PhD
Research Management Office
Director
Sustainability Committee
Ex officio Member
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty
Environmental Intelligence Center
Chief Executive Officer
Biography
Dr. Phung Thi Viet Bac received her PhD in Computational Science and Physics from Kanazawa University, Japan in 2009, and her MSc and BSc in Chemistry from Vietnam National University, Hanoi and Hanoi National University of Education in 2005 and 2002, respectively. After receiving her PhD, she continued her postdoctoral research at Kanazawa University and the National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2009 to 2012. Dr. Viet Bac’s research focuses on Material Simulation Design, applications in sensors, energy conversion and storage. In 2013, she was a researcher at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) working in the fields of photovoltaic cells, low-dimensional materials and nano-devices. After that, Dr. Viet Bac spent 4 years teaching and researching at Fukui University, Japan. From 2018 to 2023, she worked at Vietnam Japan University – Vietnam National University, Hanoi as a lecturer and researcher. She led a research group on Multi-scale Material Design and Simulation at the Institute for Sustainable Science. During that time, she was also the Scientific Secretary at the VinFuture Prize Foundation.
From 2023, she joined VinUniversity as a Research Manager and Associate Professor at the Institute of Engineering and Computer Science. Her research focuses on the design and development of materials for next-generation energy storage batteries, recycled materials, green hydrogen production, and sustainable clean energy solutions. Dr. Viet Bac is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Materials Research Society (MRS), USA.
• Computational materials science and chemistry
• Atomic and electronic structure
• Defects and doping in complex functions.
• Sustainable design for sensing devices and energy storage and conversion applications
• Materials Science
• Quantum Chemistry
• Computational Materials Design
1. P. A. Le, V. Q. Le, N. T. Nguyen, T. V. B. Phung, Assessing strong consistency of symmetrical solid-state supercapacitors based on three-dimensional porous carbon material, Applied nanoscience, 2022.
2. P. A. Le, V. Q. Le, T. L. Tran, N. T. Nguyen, T. V. B. Phung, A computation and investigation of two-dimensional WO3 nanoflowers for electrochemical studies of energy conversion and storage applications, ACS Omega 2022 –7 (12), 10115-10126
3. P. A. Le, V. Q. Le, T. L. Tran, N. T. Nguyen, T. V. B. Phung, V. A. Dinh, Two-Dimensional NH4V3O8 Nanoflakes as Efficient Energy Conversion and Storage Materials for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Supercapacitors, ACS Omega 2022, 7, 29, 25433–25442
4. P. A. Le, V. Q. Le, N. T. Nguyen, T. V. B. Phung, Multifunctional applications for waste zinc–carbon battery to synthesize carbon dots and symmetrical solid-state supercapacitors, 2022 RSC Advances 12, 10608-10618
5. P. A. Le, N. T. Nguyen, T. V. B. Phung, Food seasoning-derived gel polymer electrolyte and pulse-plasma exfoliated graphene nanosheet electrodes for symmetrical solid-state supercapacitors, RSC Advances, 12 (3), 1515-1526.
6. T. V. B. Phung, H. Ogawa, D. V. An, Y. Shibutani, K. Asano, Y. Nakamura, E. Akiba. Effects of Substitutional Mo and Cr on Site Occupation and Diffusion of Hydrogen in the β-phase Vanadium Hydride by First Principles Calculations, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 138(1), 16, 2019.
2009: PhD in Mathematical and Physical Science, Kanazawa University, Japan
2005: MSc in Theoretical and Physical Chemistry, Vietnam National University, Vietnam
2002: BSc Chemistry, Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam
Outstanding scientist of Vietnam National University in Science and Technology Research and Innovation in 2022
Award for Prestigious International Scientific Publication at Vietnam Japan University in 2022
NAFOSTED Prestigious International Paper Award 2018
Japanese Government Scholarship for PhD course (Monbukagakusho Scholarship – MEXT) 2006-2009
