Phung Thi Viet Bac, PhD
Research Management Office
Director
Sustainability Committee
Ex officio Member
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty
Center for Environmental Intelligence
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. She was the founding Executive Scientific Secretary of the VinFuture Prize Foundation, established in 2021.
From 2023, she joined VinUniversity as a Head of Research Management Office and faculty member of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. She currently serves as Director of Research and Innovation and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Environmental Intelligence (CEI). Her research focuses on the design and development of advanced 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.
7. Algorithmic iterative reticular synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate framework crystals Nature Synthesis 2025
8. Adsorption Mechanisms of Ethanol, Propanal, Butanone, and Benzene on the Monolayer WS₂ Surface: Insights from non-local van der Waals Density Functional Theory Surfaces and Interfaces 2025
9. Nanofiber-Based Composite Solid Electrolytes for Solid-State Batteries: from Fundamentals to Applications Advanced Fiber Materials 2025
10. Graphene as a sensor for lung cancer: insights into adsorption of VOCs using vdW DFT ACS omega 2024
11. First-principles study of highly sensitive graphene/hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures for application in toxic gas-sensing devices RSC advances 2024
12. Learnable features for predicting properties of metal-organic frameworks with deep neural networks Cell Reports Physical Science 2024
- 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 VNU Vietnam Japan University in 2022
- Japanese Government Scholarship for PhD course (Monbukagakusho Scholarship – MEXT) 2006-2009
