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Tran Thi Mai

Tran Thi Mai, PhD.

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering program

Biography

Dr. Mai Tran is an experimental physicist specializing in optical microscopy, optics, biophysics, and materials science. Her current research focuses on developing a 3D polarized light microscope for imaging cells and tissues and synthesizing novel biomaterials for sensing applications.

  • Optical Microscopy
  • Materials science
  • Sensors
  • Biophysics
  • Nanotechnology

• Physics I, Physics II, Physics III
• Math for Physicists and Engineers
• Introduction of Optics

 

  1. Hoang CNM, Nguyen KD, Luong TTH, Nguyen SH, Tran MT* (2024) Single-step hydrothermal synthesis of zinc oxide nanorods for potential use as nano-antibiotics without seeding or bases. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0313224. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313224
  2. Nguyen, S.H., Nguyen, VN. & Tran, M.T*. Dual-channel fluorescent sensors based on chitosan-coated Mn-doped ZnS micromaterials to detect ampicillin. Sci Rep14, 10066 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59772-3
  3. H. Nguyen, P. K. T. Vu and M. T. Tran*, “Glucose Sensors Based on Chitosan Capped ZnS Doped Mn Nanomaterials,” in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1-4, Feb. 2023, Art no. 4500304, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3240240.
  4. Tani, T., Koike-Tani, M., Tran, M.T. et al.Postnatal structural development of mammalian Basilar Membrane provides anatomical basis for the maturation of tonotopic maps and frequency tuning. Sci Rep 11, 7581 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87150-w
  5. Tran, M.T.*, and Oldenbourg, R. 2018. Mapping birefringence in three dimensions using polarized light field microscopy: the case of the juvenile clamshell. J. Microsc., 271(3):315-324. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12721

2019: Postdoctoral Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA
2017: PhD, Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2012: MSc, Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2008: MSc, Engineering Physics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
2006: BS, Engineering Physics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Centre for Gifted Education, Vietnam

  • 2024: Outstanding Contribution to Teaching in CECS Award, VinUniversity 2023-2023 Faculty of the Year Award, VinUniversity
  • 2023: The First Prize of Canvas Course Makeover Competition, VinUniversity
  • 2023: Outstanding Contribution to Teaching in CECS Award, VinUniversity
  • 2022: Encourgement Teaching Award, VinUniversity
  • 2021: Nomination for Teaching Award, VinUniversity
  • 2012: Honorable mention for excellent teaching assistant, Brown University
  • 2008: Vietnam International Education Development Fellowship
  • 2007: Research scholarship at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Orleans
  • 2007: DAAD scholarship
  • 2006: Certificate of Merit for achieving the Excellent Academic Result

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