Biography

My name is Ngoc-Lan Nguyen and I was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1985. I finished my undergraduate degree at the Vietnam National University of Agriculture in 2008 and then worked for the Center for Experimental Biology at the National Center for Technological Progress.

I received scholarships to study my master’s and PhD courses in microbiology in Korea and I obtained my doctorate degree in microbiology in 2016. Afterwards, I returned to Vietnam and started a career as a researcher in the Institute of Genome Research at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. I received grants from the National Foundation in Science and Technology Development and Graduated Science and Technology to continue my research in microbiology. I married a computer engineer who I met while I was studying for my doctorate.