Assoc. Prof. Dr. Van-Chien Pham is a senior expert in the field of earth science with over eighteen years of experience in education, research, and development of multidisciplinary projects on numerical models, water resources engineering, environment, and natural disaster prevention
and mitigation.

He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the Institute of Mechanics, Materials, and Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His research interests mainly focus on developing numerical models, data-driven models, and artificial intelligence to simulate flow dynamics and tracer transport in land-sea continuums. He has authored over fifty research articles in scientific journals, both domestically and internationally.

From 2014 to 2016, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mechanics, Materials, and Engineering at Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (Singapore). He subsequently returned to Thuyloi University (Vietnam), where he was bestowed with the title of Associate Professor in 2020. He also serves as a consultant to various ministries, provincial departments, universities, research institutes, international organizations, and networks in Vietnam.