Born 1956 in Nghe An, Vietnam

Family status: married since 1980, son and daughter

Nationality: Vietnamese

Mother tongue: Vietnamese

Foreign languages: English, German

School	Quang Ninh, Viet Nam	1962 - 1965
	Thai Binh, Viet Nam	1966 - 1973

Study of German

College for Foreign Languages in Ha Noi and Herder-Institut in Leipzig

1974 - 1975

Study of Mathematics	University of Leipzig	1975 - 1979
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Eberhard Zeidler

Diploma thesis	University of Leipzig	1979
Supervisor: Doz. Dr. Günter Deweß

Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.)	University of Leipzig	1981 - 1983
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rolf Klötzler

Habilitation (Dr. sc. nat.)	University of Leipzig	1985 - 1987
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rolf Klötzler

Researcher, Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

1984 - 1991

Associate Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

1992 - 1995

Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

since 1996

Chair of the Scientific Commission of the Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

2007 - 2012

Ambassador Scientist (Vertrauenswissenschaftler) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung), Germany

2010 - 2016

Member of the Commission for Developing Countries của International Mathematical Union (IMU)

2011 - 2014

Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Host: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Roland Bulirsch, Technical University Munich	Jan.-Dec. 1989
Hosts: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Karl-Heinz Hoffmann and Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans Georg Bock, University of Augsburg	Jul.-Dec. 1990
Host: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans Georg Bock, University of Heidelberg	Aug.-Sep. 2012

Regular Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste

1999 - 2005

Corresponding Member (Korrespondierendes Mitglied) of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften)

since Aug. 2004

Werner Romberg Distinguished Guest Professor, Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences, University of Heidelberg

2008

Corresponding Member (Korrespondierendes Mitglied) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

since Feb. 2010

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus

Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), Bonn

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

DFG Research Center MATHEON, Berlin

Facultes Universitaires de Namur

Graz University of Technology

Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig

Pukyong National University, Pusan, Korea

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

Technical University Berlin

Technical University Chemnitz

Technical University Darmstadt

Technical University Ilmenau

Technical University Munich

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste

University Duisburg-Essen

University Karlsruhe

University of Augsburg

University of Bayreuth

University of Freiburg

University of Hamburg

University of Heidelberg

University of Leipzig

University of London

University of Trier

University of Wuerzburg

University of Zurich

Vienna University of Technology

Warsaw University

Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)

Member of the Editorial Board of Acta Mathematica Vietnamica	1996 - 1999
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Vietnam Journal of Mathematics (VJM)	1998 - July 2011
Member of the Editorial Board of the Vietnam Journal of Mathematical Applications	since 2003
Associate Editor of the journal Mathematische Nachrichten	since 2011
Associate Editor of the East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics (EAJAM)	since 2011
Editor-in-Chief of the Vietnam Journal of Mathematics (VJM)	since Aug. 2011