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Prof Matthias Paetzold and students of the Hanoi University of Science & Technology



“Professor Matthias Paetzold is great. There are two foreign professors who have strong attachment to our school. One of them is Professor Matthias Paetzold,” Tran Van Top, vice rector of the Hanoi University of Science & Technology, said about the respected professor.

The relationship between the Norwegian professor and the Vietnamese university started in 2004, when Nguyen Van Duc, a lecturer of the university, became a PhD student at Agder University, where Paetzold worked.

Duc and Paetzold continued their cooperation in research projects even after Duc returned to Vietnam. Since 2009, the professor has played an important role in helping Vietnam’s universities organize international workshops and conferences on electronics and communications.

The research project on an underwater channel model funded by the National Science and Technology Development Fund (Nafosted) was one of their collaborative research works. 

Matthias began giving lectures at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Hanoi University of Science & Technology in 2014, when the school began applying the Advanced Program.
Within the framework of the project, Paetzold assisted the research team in publicizing the research internationally. Each time he visits Vietnam, he makes scientific presentations for his doctoral students and assists them with information on sonar and radio information.

He said that international cooperation is a good way to carry out research of an international stature.

Matthias began giving lectures at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Hanoi University of Science & Technology in 2014, when the school began applying the Advanced Program.

According to Duc, though Matthias is a leading expert in the world, he doesn’t require any pay or allowance when giving lectures at the university. The school is only in charge of arranging accommodations for him during his two-week stay in Vietnam every year.

“When I am in Vietnam, Duc and I have opportunities to implement projects, write articles together and initiate new projects,” Matthias said. “I’m proud to say that we now have an attached friendship after many years of cooperation.”

The professor praised the Hanoi University of Science & Technology’s curricula and the quality of Vietnamese students, saying that the balance in theory and practice satisfies the needs of the labor market, thus helping retain excellent students and talented reserachers.

“The results of the tests carried out in my training courses always impress me,” he said.

He knows one of the burning issues for Vietnam’s training is that talented students tend to leave after obtaining a bachelor’s degree and seek master’s degree courses abroad. The talented students cannot continue making a contribution to the country’s development if they do not return.