Vietnam recognises second female professor in mathematics

Lecturer Le Thi Thanh Nhan of the University of Science under Thai Nguyen University has been recognised as the second female professor of Vietnam in the field of mathematics, after Prof. Hoang Xuan Sinh.

 

Prof. Le Thi Thanh Nhan (right) received the Kovalevskaia 2011 Award.

Pham Vu Luan, Minister of Education and Training and Chairman of the State Council for Professor Title, signed a decision on October 22 to recognise 52 teachers as professors and 470 others as associate professors.

The field of medicine saw the most newly-crowned professors with a total of nine, followed by the security science (6), military science (3) and earth science (3).

 

The youngest professor and associate professor are both working in the field of physics, including Nguyen Van Hieu of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 43, and Ho Khac Hieu of the Duy Tan Private University, 31, respectively.

 

According to Prof. Pham Vu Luan, the professors and associate professors recognised this year, most of whom are university lecturers, are of a higher calibre with a larger number of internationally renowned works, better foreign language levels and younger age average.

 

Most notably, Vietnam’s second female math professor, Le Thi Thanh Nhan, 45, has had 16 research works published in numerous prestigious math journals throughout the world such as SCI and SCIE.

 

In 2007, Nhan received a merit certificate from the Prime Minister and the biennial prestigious scientific award of the Vietnam Institute of Mathematics. Four years later, she was awarded the Kovalevskaia 2011 Awards, a noble prize honouring female scientists with outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of natural sciences.

 

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)