Le Anh Vinh, Le Anh Vinh, head of the Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences

The list of candidates for 2020 professorship titles released by the State Professorship Council shows that of 28 disciplines and inter-disciplines, only 13 had candidates eligible for the professorship title, including Livestock – Animal Health – Fisheries; Mechanics; Mechanical Engineering; Pharmacology; Education; Chemistry - Food Technology; Economics; Biology; Psychology; Water Resources; Mathematics; Physics and Medicine.

Of these, Medicine and Chemistry – Food Technology are the disciplines with the highest number of candidates meeting requirements to become professors, with eight candidates each. The other disciplines had 1-4 candidates meeting requirements.

The youngest candidate is Le Anh Vinh, born in 1983. He was a mathematics major at the High School for the Gifted in Natural Sciences. Vinh won the silver medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) in 2001.

In 2010, at the age of 27, Vinh received a doctorate from Harvard University. In 2013, he became the youngest Vietnamese scientist receiving the title of Associate Professor when he was 30 years old.

In 2017, Vinh was appointed Deputy Head of the Vietnam National Institute of Education Sciences, an arm of the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

The oldest candidate for the professorship title this year is Dinh Van Chien, 68, from the National Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, under the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA).

The youngest candidates to become Associate Professors this year are Pham Chien Thang in chemistry, from Hanoi National University, Vo Hoang Hung in mathematics from Sai Gon University, Tran Duc Hoc in civil engineering from University of Technology under HCM City National University, and LE Minh Triet in mathematics from Sai Gon University.

All were born in 1987.

The oldest candidate meeting requirements to become Associate Professor is Nguyen Xa Hoi, 61, in Dynamics, from the Fire Fighting and Prevention University.

The economics discipline had the highest number of candidates meeting requirements to become Associate Professors (45), followed by Chemistry – Food Technology (28), Physics (26), Security Sciences (22), Medicine (22), Military Sciences (14), Electricity and Electrical - Electronics – Automation (14), and Mechanical Engineering dynamics (13).

Meanwhile, History - Archeology – Ethnology and Psychology only had one candidate meeting the requirements, while Literature and Metallurgy had two candidates each.

The number of candidates registering for the titles of Associate Professor and Professor in 2020 were lower than last year.

In 2020, 339 candidates have been recognized as meeting requirements for the titles of Associate Professor or Professor. 

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